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A five-bedroom, 16,000-square-foot Georgian-style mansion on Lake Michigan in Winnetka sold last week for $34.5 million including personal property — a Chicago-area sales record for the sale of any single residential property in history.

Built in 2016 and with 151 feet of beachfront on a 1.9-acre property, the mansion has a publicly assessed 11,026 square feet, according to the Cook County assessor, although its total finished square footage is 16,000 square feet. The mansion was designed by architect Bill Fork of Northworks Architecture and is just one of 12 lots in Winnetka that extends from Sheridan Road to the lakeshore.

Features include plaster walls, Belgian oak planked floors, an enfilade, an oak-paneled music room, a white-walled livi

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