Uptown Collinsville is brick and storefront and a hill that leans downhill toward Main Street, and the small green spaces tucked between the buildings ask for the same attention a wide yard does. This is lawn care measured in tidy squares as well as broad ones — a strip beside a shop, a corner lot, a back yard running to the alley fence. Mow, trim, edge, clear the walks, and the whole block reads a little brighter by afternoon. Illinois pushes growth hard through June and slows it in August heat, so the schedule bends to what the grass is actually doing that week. The result is plain and it repeats: a place that looks tended.