I have to admit that I didn’t know who Frank Thomas is. I don’t follow sports at all so I had to look this guy up to find out that he’s a former White Sox baseball player. I guess he was pretty good. Good enough to afford building a 41 room, 26,000 square foot mansion in Oakbrook in 1997 that he sold to a real estate developer in 2003 for $7.95 MM. According to the Chicago Tribune that’s still the highest price ever paid for a home in DuPage County.
13 years later – just two weeks a… (View original article)