Between 1889 and 2005 the Tudor-gothic red-brick building had been an actual fire station ... which is “like a living room ...

Preservation Chicago, a nonprofit advocacy organization that protects local architecture, recently named the home, known as the J.J. Walser Jr. House, on its list of the Chicago 7 Most Endangered.

I met a girl subletting a room on Facebook Marketplace, and I moved in with her in this strange house. A random house has become my home, and a random group of girls has become my best friends.