Chicago is a city of alleys — close to two thousand miles of them — and on the Far Northwest Side they run behind every yard in Jefferson Park and Norwood Park like a second, quieter grid. JWD Landscaping & Outdoor Living tends what sits between that alley and the front walk: mowing, trimming close along garage slabs and fence lines, edging the walks, and clearing a yard down to bare turf at the opening and close of the season. September is the good month up here, warm afternoons, cool nights, grass growing thick and cutting sweet. Back gardens on these blocks run deeper than most people expect, room enough to sit out in, and they look their best when the lines are kept honest. The pride is in what's still there a week later.