Lemont is one of the few towns near Chicago with real hills, and every winter those short steep streets rising out of the valley remind people of it. Plowkings&Landscaping Inc. works them, plowing drives that pitch toward the road, clearing walks and stacking snow uphill so the melt cannot run back across the concrete and set overnight. In the warm months those same slopes want mowing and trimming, which on a grade turns into its own kind of patience. What holds the whole thing together is knowing the ground: where water goes, which side the sun reaches first, which corner drifts every single time. Lawn care and snow work for Lemont and the towns beside it.