Bremen Township sits on flat glacial ground, and the wind that comes down across the prairie has nothing to slow it before it reaches a driveway off Cicero Avenue. Alberts & Sons Landscaping works the snow side of that geography — plowing drives, shoveling walks, and spreading salt through the long Cook County winter. The clipper storms arrive fast here, dry and sideways, and the work starts at an hour most of the block will never see. There is a plain satisfaction in a driveway opened all the way to the curb line, the apron squared off, the path to the front step cleared wide enough for two people to pass. By the time the sky over the water tower goes gray with morning, the street is a place people can leave from.