Closing on a house seems like a pretty satisfying moment. When it burns down nine days later, not so much. In 2010, recording engineer Sanford Parker and his wife, Taryn, hadn’t yet moved into their Logan Square threeflat when they were informed that the interior had been destroyed. Knowing the building was vacant, local kids had broken in and inadvertently set the pad ablaze. “Needless to say, we were devastated,” Taryn says. “You’re required to get insurance when you buy a house, so we basically maxed out our entire insurance policy right away.”
Two Wesley Willis drawings in their living room are serendipitous scores from a previous apartment. “I was digging around behind the furnace and I found these just propped up against the wall,” Sanford says. “I was always a big fan of his.”
