A clipper dropping down out of the northwest gives this corner of Illinois almost no warning: clear at bedtime, six inches by the alarm. Pawlicki Enterprises LLC works the hours in between, plowing Algonquin driveways and lots while the village is still dark and the salt trucks are only just out on Randall Road. Snow removal here means stacking piles where they won't blind a driver backing out, reopening the apron the county plow packed shut, and putting down ice control on shaded north walks that see no sun in January. The wind runs unbroken across the open ground west of town, so a drive cleared at four can drift closed by seven, which is why the route gets run again. What a household is owed by morning is simple: pavement, and a way out.