The Des Plaines River takes its slow bend through Gurnee under bur oaks that were shading this ground long before the subdivisions found it. Mike Greco Landscaping mows and trims the yards along those streets, keeping turf even from the parkway strip to the back fence and the edges cut clean where lawn meets walk and drive. Lake County summers come in warm and wet and the grass answers fast, so the schedule holds week by week, cleanups follow the storms, and clippings never sit. There is real pleasure in the last pass of an afternoon, when the stripes line up across a front yard and the whole block seems to straighten with it. Then October arrives, the oaks let go by the bushel, and the same lawns get carried back to green.