March snow in northern Illinois is the heavy kind, wet and gray, arriving after everybody has decided winter was finished with them. Rich's Landscape and Snow Removal LLC goes out in it anyway, plowing Lemont drives and clearing walks when the stuff weighs three times what December's did. Late-season storms melt from underneath and stiffen at the edges, so getting down to bare pavement while it is still soft matters far more than it looks like it should. There is a plain pride in a driveway that is black and wet at sunrise on a morning like that, with the pile set well off the apron. Snow clearing for Lemont and the towns around it.