By late July the air over Champaign thickens with corn sweat, and the cicadas run the sound system from every tree between Dodds Park and the alleys downtown. J & D MOWING SERVICE keeps working straight through it, starting early, before the heat sets its jaw. Mowing is the whole trade here and it deserves that focus — height set for the weather, patterns laid straight, trimming finished where the deck can't reach. A Champaign summer will take a lawn from lush to scorched in ten days if nobody is watching the cut. Watching the cut is the job.