From the bluff above Chillicothe the Illinois River runs wide and slow, and in January the eagles work the open water while the town's oaks stand bare and stubborn on the slope. Sunshine Tree Service & Maintenance climbs that hill ground — pruning for structure in the cold, trimming limbs back from the rooflines that face the river wind. A removal on a slope is a rigging problem, and they solve it with rope and patience instead of luck. Come spring the storms push up the valley, and the work afterward is brush carried out, drives opened, and lawns raked so a family can get on with the weekend. The river keeps doing what it does; the yards get to look cared for either way.