Mendota sits where the rail lines meet and the prairie runs out flat in every direction, which means the wind here has nothing to slow it down. JP landscaping works both halves of that bargain: the long green months of mowing and trimming, and the winter mornings when snow comes across the open fields sideways and packs itself hard against a driveway. Getting a drive opened before the first cup of coffee cools is the difference between a family making it out on time and not. In summer the same properties get walked, cut and edged until the lines show from the street. It is honest outdoor work in a town built on junctions, and it keeps this corner of LaSalle County moving in both directions.