U. Of C. Finance Professor Lists Italianate-style, 5-bedroom Home In Hyde Park For $3.2m

University of Chicago Booth School of Business finance professor Luigi Zingales and his wife, Jill, on Feb. 10 listed their five-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot, vintage Italianate-style brick home in Hyde Park for $3.2 million.

An expert on corporate governance and financial development, Zingales, 63, has taught at U. of C. for more than 30 years.

In Hyde Park, Zingales and his wife paid $1.1 million in 2010 to buy the house, which was just a few doors away from his previous home.

Built in the late 1860s or early 1870s and renovated by the couple, the house has many of its original features, including 15-foot ceilings on the first floor, four original marble fireplaces, a sweeping staircase to the second floor and oversized windows and doors.

Other features include a contemporary kitchen, new windows and a new roof. Outside on the 0.16-acre property are a deck and yard.

A lengthy 1951 Tribune article profiled the home’s owner at the time, Lenore Wood, who reportedly bought it to house her extensive collection of furniture and treasures.

In the article, Wood, a physical education instructor at Herzl Junior College, the predecessor to Malcolm X College, is reported to have named the home’s rooms.

Names included Martingale for the kitchen, Cheshire Cheese for the dining room, Golden Temple for a guest bedroom and Bibliotheque for the north sitting room. The story noted that she had named the home Woodhaven.

Later longtime owners of the home were Judith Getzels and her husband, Jacob, a professor of education and psychology at the U. of C. who died in 2001.

Zingales and his wife bought the home from the Getzels family.

Listing agent Robert Sullivan declined to comment on the property beyond what is in published listing remarks.

The house had a $34,913 property tax bill in the 2024 tax year.

Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.