Elgin once kept time for the whole country, and the town still runs on a certain steady beat — Saturday mornings, mowers starting up one street after another. Hometown lawn care works into that rhythm: cutting, trimming, blowing off the walk, then on to the neighbor two doors down. The Midwest growing season is short and generous, nearly all of it packed between May and October, so the weeks matter and the route holds. Nothing about a mowed lawn is complicated; it just has to happen on time and be finished at the edges. Mowing, trimming and cleanups in Elgin, South Elgin, Bartlett and Streamwood.