The old West Side boulevards were drawn wide on purpose, and green still runs down their middles like a held note. A&E Landscaping Inc works the yards along them — mowing, bed edging, mulch laid dark around the shrubs, hedges taken down to an even line. Late May in this part of Chicago is all cottonwood drift and warm brick, and a lawn cut that week seems to double in color by Friday. The work is unhurried but exact: the trimmer follows the fence, the blower clears the walk, nothing is left for the wind to carry next door. What stays behind is a front yard that makes the whole block sit up straighter.