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Brandon Cruz, the cofounder of Chicago-based GoHealth, and his wife Catherine on Oct. 9 sold their seven-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot house in Lincoln Park for $4.5 million. The couple paid $5.7 million in 2023 to buy the late Chicago businessman Andrew McKenna’s 10-bedroom, 11,110-square-foot mansion in unincorporated Winnetka. Cruz cofounded GoHealth in 2001 as a way to provide technology for health insurance brokers. The company now operates as a health insurance marketplace and a Medicare-focused digital health company. The federal government has alleged that GoHealth is among a group of insurance brokers that were paid illegal kickbacks by large Medicare Advantage insurers for enrollments into those insurers’ Medicare Advantage plans. GoHealth has denied the allegations, issuing a press release in May that asserted that the company always has worked to advance the interests of Medicare Advantage and the Medicare beneficiaries it serves. Cruz served as GoHealth’s president from its founding until 2020, when he joined its board of directors. He currently is co-chairman of GoHealth’s board. Catherine and Brandon Cruz paid $3.65 million in 2012 for the Lincoln Park home that they just sold. Built in 2010, the brick and limestone house sits on a 33-foot wide lot and has seven bathrooms, two fireplaces, a four-stop elevator, designer wall coverings and light fixtures, millwork, a home automation system, four bedrooms on the second floor, a living room with a stone fireplace, an open-concept family room with built-ins, a coffered ceiling and a stone fireplace, and a kitchen with white shaker cabinetry, marble countertops, top-of-the-line appliances, a breakfast table, a walk-in pantry and a wet bar. The home’s primary bedroom suite has oversized windows, a 28-foot-long closet and a marble bath with dual vanities, heated floors and a glass steam shower, while the penthouse level has a recreation room with a wet bar, a paneled office, two roof decks and another powder room. The lower level has high ceilings, a media room, a wine cellar, a gym and a mud room that connects with the attached and heated, three-car garage. Outside are a bluestone patio with a wood-burning fireplace and a 500-square-foot raised deck over the garage with a pergola, a pizza oven and a motorized TV that rises from a planter box. The couple first listed the Lincoln Park home for $5 million in 2024. They relisted it in May for $4.85 million and found a buyer three months later. The buyer is an opaque land trust whose beneficiary could not yet be determined. Listing agent Ryan Preuett did not respond to several requests for comment. Danny Leung, who represented the buyers of the Lincoln Park home, declined to comment. In June 2023, the estate of McKenna, a former chairman of McDonald’s Corp. and a part-owner of the Chicago Bears who died in February 2023 at age 93, sold his longtime mansion on 2.7 acres to an opaque land trust whose beneficiaries are Cruz and his wife. The couple’s identity as the buyers of McKenna’s home has not been previously reported. The Lincoln Park mansion that the Cruzes sold had an $86,085 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year. Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
