Ex-U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush selling Bronzeville home
Former U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush — the former Black Panther, ex-Chicago alderman and minister — is selling his home in Bronzeville.The five-bedroom home at 3534 S. Calumet Ave. was listed on Saturday for $795,000. Rush and his late wife, Carolyn A. Rush, who died in 2017, have owned the house since at least 1986, according to county property records.The three-story brick row home, built in 1888, features three-and-a-half bathrooms, according to its listing. The Rushes acquired an adjacent vacant lot from the city in 1994, according to property records, and built an extension of their home and a two-car garage with a rooftop terrace.Real estate agent Esther Williams did not immediately comment. Rush did not immediately reply to a request for comment.The Sun-Times reported in 2013 that Rush repeatedly failed to pay his property taxes on time. Rush had paid at least $21,000 in penalties, interest and delinquent property taxes. Some of the payments were over five years past due, the Sun-Times reported then. Former U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush’s home at 3534 S. Calumet. in 2005.Sun-Times file He told the Sun-Times then, "Yes, I might owe tax. I might owe a lot of things," pointing out that he also paid for an apartment in Washington, D.C. In 2010, the Sun-Times reported that a bank sued Rush over late payment of two mortgages. One of them was for a condominium he owned in Buchanan, Michigan.At the time, Rush was paid $174,000 a year to serve in Congress. His campaign fund regularly paid his wife consultant fees amounting to $83,049 in 2012, the Sun-Times reported then.Rush, 78, retired from Congress in 2022. Rush said he would focus on being pastor of the Beloved Community Christian Church of God in Christ. Former U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in the United Center.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file
Former U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush — the former Black Panther, ex-Chicago alderman and minister — is selling his home in Bronzeville.
The five-bedroom home at 3534 S. Calumet Ave. was listed on Saturday for $795,000. Rush and his late wife, Carolyn A. Rush, who died in 2017, have owned the house since at least 1986, according to county property records.
The three-story brick row home, built in 1888, features three-and-a-half bathrooms, according to its listing. The Rushes acquired an adjacent vacant lot from the city in 1994, according to property records, and built an extension of their home and a two-car garage with a rooftop terrace.
Real estate agent Esther Williams did not immediately comment. Rush did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
The Sun-Times reported in 2013 that Rush repeatedly failed to pay his property taxes on time. Rush had paid at least $21,000 in penalties, interest and delinquent property taxes. Some of the payments were over five years past due, the Sun-Times reported then.
He told the Sun-Times then, "Yes, I might owe tax. I might owe a lot of things," pointing out that he also paid for an apartment in Washington, D.C.
In 2010, the Sun-Times reported that a bank sued Rush over late payment of two mortgages. One of them was for a condominium he owned in Buchanan, Michigan.
At the time, Rush was paid $174,000 a year to serve in Congress. His campaign fund regularly paid his wife consultant fees amounting to $83,049 in 2012, the Sun-Times reported then.
Rush, 78, retired from Congress in 2022.
Rush said he would focus on being pastor of the Beloved Community Christian Church of God in Christ.
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