The gates of R. Kelly’s onetime “Chocolate Factory” mansion in suburban Chicago have closed for good — and at a steep discount.

The 21,000-square-foot estate, where the R&B singer once recorded hits and allegedly exerted disturbing control over those who entered, just sold for $1.6 million, according to Alex Wolking of Keller Williams ONEChicago, who represented the listing.

That’s less than half its $3.5 million asking price and only a hair above what it fetched in foreclosure more than a decade ago.

Moreover, it’s not alone. A number of luxury Chicagoland properties are struggling to sell these days. 17

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When the former R. Kelly property last changed hands in 2013, it was a wreck — floodwater in the basement, mold on the walls, rot in the rafters.

The late Rudolph Isley of

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