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

The mansion’s sellers, Jeffrey Quicksilver, who cofounded real estate investment firm Walton Street Capital, and his wife, Ashley, who owns the high-end Winnetka women’s boutique Athene, bought the property in 2013 for $8 million from Carry Buck, the ex-wife of Chicago developer John Buck. The Quicksilvers then knocked down the Bucks’ longtime 13-room mansion and built the mansion that they just sold.

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