John McDonough, the longtime president of the Chicago Blackhawks and the president of the Chicago Cubs before that, on June 27 sold his three-bedroom, 3,694-square-foot house in Wheaton for $970,000.

McDonough introduced numerous innovations during his 17 years with the Cubs, including the annual Cubs Convention and initiating the idea of a guest conductor singing the seventh-inning stretch after broadcaster Harry Caray’s death in 1998. McDonough’s greatest leadership successes, however, came during his tenure with the Blackhawks, which he led as president from 2007 until 2020 — a time when they won three Stanley Cup titles.

Through an opaque land trust that masks his identity, McDonough paid a little less than $855,000 in 2021 to buy the Wheaton house from its homebuilder, and he subse

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