Five bedrooms in Oak Park, a 3,283 square -foot bungalow, once owned by Sam Jiankana, head of Chicago outfits – and the house whose basement Jiankana was killed in a 1975 crime, which was never resolved – on 22 January Sold for $ 900,000.
Designed in 1929 and designed by architect AJ Fisher, this house is located on Venona Avenue at Southern Oak Park. Jiankana and his wife, Angelin bought the house in 1945, and lived in the house after his death in 1954.
Jiankana, who led the Chicago Outfit Crime Syndicate from 1957 to 1966, was called to a federal grand jury investigating the organized crime in 1965, and after refusing to testify, he was courted for more than a year. Was kept in jail for contempt. A time of attractive Jiankana fled to Mexico and remained out of the US for the next eight years, after which Mexican officials sent him to the US in 1974. After several months, Jiankana finally spoke to the grand jury at many different places. opportunity.
And despite the police’s efforts to protect the house of Jiankana, on June 19, 1975 at around 11 pm, an unknown assailant shot him several times and killed him when he was cooking sausage and chillies in his basement kitchen. Were. About two hours later, due to the phone call of an anonymous collar, the tribune’s Welden Whistler published the news on the front page in the next morning newspaper.
The murder has never been solved, and the principles about the identity of potential attackers or attackers have spread wildly, in which Jiankana had told the federal grand jury or was about to tell her behavior from the crowds of fearful crowds from the crowd The concerned people were involved in the ongoing Congress hearing. Along with the CIA, including a possible conspiracy to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro
Jiankana’s three daughters sold the house in 1976 to Robert and Jane Warner for $ 69,500. Then, the most recent vendors bought a house from Warner in 1990. The most recent vendors first listed the house at $ 1.1 million in late 2022, reduced their demand price to $ 975,000 in early 2023 and then re -listed it in $ 1.05 million in July in July. He once again reduced his demand price to $ 975,000 in October and then to $ 925,000 in November before finding a buyer.
The selling price of $ 900,000 is 16 percent higher than the price of $ 772,080 that gives the Cook County Valid’s office to the house.
The house has five bathrooms, hard wood floors, pela windows, designer light fixtures, first floor primary bedroom suite and a meeting room with round windows, a wooden -burning chimney and a marble mantel. Other features include the newly installed hard wood flooring on the upper floor and lower levels with a roof of eight feet, maple hard wood floors and a workout studio that also serves as another bedroom. The house also has a rebuilt rear verandah and stairs, a broken tile roof, new copper gutters and downspouts and a kichaler outdoor lighting.
Public records do not yet identify buyers. Listing agents Kathy Mead and Stephanie Alphini did not respond to the remarks requests.
The property tax bill of the house was $ 25,113 in the 2023 tax year.