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    Former WMAQ-Ch. 5 news anchor Joan Esposito on Monday placed her six-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot home in Winnetka on the market for $1.935 million.

    Esposito, 63, was a top news anchor in Chicago for two decades until leaving NBC 5 in 1999 and starting her own media training firm, J2 Strategic Communications.

    Esposito paid $1.9 million in 2005 for the three-story home. Custom-built by Andrzej Kruszewski and featuring handmade brick, the house has 51/2 baths, four fireplaces, a second-floor laundry room, an office with built-ins and a kitchen with a six-burner Wolf range, two warming drawers, two Sub-Zero refrigerators, two microwave ovens, an island and a butler’s pantry. Other features include a finished lower level with a sixth bedroom, a fireplace, a theater and a wet bar.

    “It’s an incredibly beautiful custom-built home,” said listing agent Sherry Molitor of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff. “And it sits on a 190-foot-deep lot. That&rsq

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    Joan Esposito OBITUARY

    Joan Esposito was born Joan Frances Grisez on August 5, 1937 in Patterson, CA to Josephine and John F. Grisez. She was the second of four children (James, John Patrick and Jay Michael Grisez). In the early 1940s, the family moved to a ranch in nearby Crows Landing, CA. Joan was a lärjunge at Orestimba High School in Newman, CA where she played several different sports. Joan went on to the University of San Francisco to study nursing. She graduated from USF in 1959, and soon after moved to Manhattan Beach. In the early 1960s, she lived in a home on the corner of Manhattan Avenue and Rosecrans and worked as a sjuksköterska in Compton. In 1961 she met her future husband, Daniel R. Esposito. The two were married in 1963, and settled in Manhattan Beach on Maple Avenue. The couple went on to have four children (Gena, Dan, Patrice and David) and three grandchildren (Aidan, Dane and Paige). Joan was a stay at home mom, cooking all the meals, förpackning lunches, sewin

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    LAST YEAR POPULAR CHICAGO DISC jockey Joe (JoBo) Bohannon told his morning listeners that he had what ""could be the story of the century.'' What was of such import? He said a prominent television anchorwoman was carrying the child of a Chicago Bulls basketball player. The story rocketed around Chicago quicker than a Bulls fast break. But it was dead wrong. The anchorwoman, Joan Esposito, was pregnant by her husband, who had committed suicide shortly after conception. Contending the ""widespread repetition'' of the rumor had defamed her, she filed an $8 million suit, which is pending. Two weeks ago, JoBo and partner Ed Volkman were fired by their radio station, CBS-owned B-96. The two DJs couldn't be reached; B-96 declined comment.

    Radio shock jocks have never been confused with Walter Cronkite or, for that matter, Woodward and Bernstein. Bad taste has made Howard Stern into a huge ratings hit. But this incident, and another recent one at a St. Louis radio station -- which ended in

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