On the old blocks near the cathedral the lawns are small and the trees are enormous, and everything has to be worked around — iron fences, stone steps, a hydrangea that has been there longer than the sidewalk. Assure Home and Lawn Solutions takes that kind of yard on, mowing and hand-trimming where a wide deck will never fit. Edging along a century-old walk is slow, and it shows when it is done right: a clean seam where concrete meets green. Cleanups in spring and fall clear the winter sand and the leaf drop from beds somebody's grandmother planted. Joliet keeps a good deal of its history in these front yards, and they get treated that way.