Central Illinois ice arrives politely and then stays a week — a rattle of sleet on the window at midnight, silver maples bowed over the older streets by morning, and a driveway nobody can safely walk down. Halligan Landscaping works that weather, plowing snow, opening walks and steps, and putting salt exactly where a slope and a shadow have conspired to make trouble. Drives run long out here, and a wind off the fields will refill the end of one while your back is turned. There is a plain, durable pleasure in swinging back around and finding your own clean pavement still clean. Winter in this village is entirely manageable; it only asks that somebody be up early.