
Former Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg sells Glenview home for $2.45M
Former Northwestern University athletic director Derrick Gragg, who oversaw the university's athletics from 2021 until 2024, on Wednesday sold his six-bedroom, 5,770-square-foot house in Glenview for $2.45 million.
Gragg, 55, was the longtime athletic director at the University of Tulsa before joining Northwestern in 2021. He weathered a hazing scandal in Northwestern's football program and the eventual firing of the school's longtime head football coach, Pat Fitzgerald.
Last year, Gragg shifted to a new role as vice president for athletic strategy at Northwestern.
Built in 2008, the house that Gragg sold has 7-1/2 bathrooms, three fireplaces, a two-story foyer, a bridal staircase, a living room with a marble hearth and a library with cherry millwork and built-ins. The kitchen has a large flamed granite working island, two Miele dishwashers, an apron-style kitchen sink, twin Sub-Zero refrigerators, four Sub-Zero freezer drawers, a commercial-grade six-burner Wolf stove and griddle, a pot filler faucet and a warming drawer. The house also has two laundry rooms, a primary bedroom suite with tray ceilings and two walk-in closets and a balcony.
Other features include an attached four-car garage and a lower level with heated floors, a large rec room with a full bar, a 1,000-bottle wine cellar, an exercise room and a theater room with stadium theater seating. The house sits on a 0.8-acre property.
In Glenview, Gragg listed the house in January for $2.4 million an agents-only network. He found a buyer just three days later.
Public records show that an opaque land trust was the buyer.
The house had a $42,455 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
Listing agent Paul Gorney of eXp Realty could not be reached for comment.
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