Former Chicago Fire defender Rafael Czichos and his wife, Ilona, on Oct. 10 sold their four-bedroom, contemporary-style house in west suburban Indian Head Park for $912,500.

After three seasons with the Fire, Czichos, 35, left the team last year when he was not re-signed. In August, he signed a contract with the Phoenix Rising soccer club in the USL Championship league.

In Indian Head Park, Czichos and his wife paid $785,000 in 2022 for the two-story, 2,414-square-foot house, which was built in 1976 and is in the Hadon’s Woodland Hills subdivision. Completely remodeled in 2020 with many upgrades added the following year, the house has 2½ bathrooms, hardwood floors throughout the main and upper floors, a dining room with skylights and a vaulted ceiling, a library/loft overlooking the dining room and an eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances and quartz countertops.

Other features include a family room with a new fireplace, a new patio, a fully finished partial basement, a new roof and new windows.

Listing agent Eli Masud of Compass, who co-listed the home with Regan Grabill, told Elite Street that at a sale price of $378 per square foot, his clients reaped “one of the highest per-square-foot prices in Indian Head Park in the past decade.”

“The neighborhood was the biggest thing,” Masud said. “They absolutely loved the neighborhood because they have a kid, and there’s a ton of kids that hang out throughout the neighborhood. It’s one of the rarer neighborhoods where you can have the kids play outside in the neighborhood and come home at dinnertime, sort off like we used to do in the past.”

Masud said Czichos’ opportunity in Arizona allows him to play soccer while also helping to grow a youth soccer program there.

“They took the risk and decided to leave, which was super tough in terms of a decision,” he said.

Czichos isn’t the only well-known figure to have owned a home in that neighborhood. The late Chicago TV news anchor Joel Daly and his late wife, Suzon, long owned a contemporary-style house in the Hadon’s Woodland Hills area until selling it in 2000.

The home had a $13,698 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year.

Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.

Former Chicago Fire defender Rafael Czichos and his wife, Ilona, on Oct. 10 sold their four-bedroom, contemporary-style house in west suburban Indian Head Park for $912,500. (Eli Masud)

 

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