Longtime political strategist David Axelrod and his wife, Susan, on Sept. 10 sold their four-bedroom home and country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.15 million.

A former Chicago Tribune reporter, Axelrod, 70, helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and worked as a senior adviser in the Obama White House from 2009 until 2011. He later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, a position he stepped down from last year, although he remains with the institute as a senior fellow.

In Buchanan, which is a small vacation community in southwest Michigan, the Axelrods bought the 52-acre property in 1998. They converted the main structure on the property, a barn dating to 1857, into a 4,200-square-foot house with four bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms and three-s

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