The last Chicago home of the late philanthropist Ann Lurie — known for her $100 million donation to the Lurie Children’s Hospital — just hit the market asking $3.75 million, or $658 per square foot.
Lurie bought the Gold Coast co-op in 2020 for $1.7 million and rehabbed it for her monthly week-long stays in Chicago after she relocated to an $8 million, 35-acre ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Crain’s reported.
Lurie’s estate listed the 5,700-square-foot home on a private, agents-only listing site with the help of Tim Salm of Jameson Sotheby’s International Real Estate.
The unit, at 209 East Lake Shore Drive, is in the same building where former Fruit of the Loom CEO Bill Farley has a 15-room home. Farley also put his unit on the market in August 2023 with an initial asking price of $16 million, making it the second-priciest listing in the city at the time. Since then, the price on the 14th-floor home has been slashed nearly in half to $8.45 million.
Lurie’s unit has three main formal rooms that span 63 feet, with views of Oak Street Beach and the near North Side lakefront.
Originally from Florida, Lurie moved to Chicago and worked as a pediatric intensive care nurse at Children’s Memorial Hospital, later renamed to the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital to honor her nine-figure donation.
Her husband, Robert Lurie — real estate investor and business partner of billionaire Sam Zell — left a $425 million estate when he died in 1990. By 2012, Ann Lurie had given away $331 million to philanthropic causes, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Beyond her support for the children’s hospital, Lurie gave $60 million to Northwestern University and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She also donated $5 million to the Greater Chicago Food Depository and $10 million to establish a 2.5-acre park downtown known as the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park.
Ann Lurie also invested in real estate, selling the family’s lakefront Winnetka home for $5.5 million in 1997 and purchasing a Gold Coast mansion on Dearborn Street for just under $5.1 million in 1995. In 2017, she sold the Gold Coast home to the Latin School of Chicago for $12 million. Not all of her real estate ventures were successful, though. She bought an East Lake Shore condo for just under $4.7 million in 2007 and sold it a decade later for $2 million.
Lurie died last year at age 79 after she was diagnosed with a form of cancer called glioblastoma.
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