Kingston sits where the South Branch of the Kishwaukee slides quietly through DeKalb County farmland, and the year here is honest about its two halves. In summer Huerta Landscaping inc keeps the cutting on a tight interval, edges the walks and clears the yard of whatever the wind brings down. In February the same drives get plowed open before daylight, the walks shoveled, the ice salted at the spots that always freeze first — the low corner, the shaded north side. The measure of a night's work is a driveway that lets a car out without a second thought. From the village grid out to the section roads toward Genoa and Kirkland, the work runs on that same steady beat.