Oak Park is a village built for walking — short blocks, sidewalks on both sides, and a great many people who get everywhere on foot. Winter tests that arrangement every year. Oak Park Township provides snow removal here, the work of getting walks and entries open again so residents can keep moving through the coldest weeks of the calendar. It is plain, practical service, done at the hours the weather chooses rather than the ones anyone would pick. A cleared path in January is a small civic kindness, and on streets this close together it multiplies quickly.