Everyone in the Tier 2 Aboagye-Lindqvist neighborhood knows someone who has one of these. Nkechi Aboagye, who goes by Oma Nkechi to the block, has been knitting and selling pullovers from her apartment on the 14th floor of the Greaves stack for twenty-three years. The yarn is a blend she sources herself — recycled wool-analog, some real merino she trades favors for, occasionally a fiber that shifts color slightly with body heat that she picks up from a supplier she won't name. Each sweater has her signature asymmetrical ribbing at the hem and a different front panel motif — geometric, often Akan-derived, occasionally incorporating Nordic grid patterns from her late husband's family.

They are not cheap for the neighborhood — Φ65 to Φ90 depending on the yarn — but they last a decade of hard wear and she repairs them for free. Owning one marks you as someone who lives in or is connected to a specific few blocks of Tier 2 Chicago-North. It's a geographic and social belonging, knitted in.