Okawville grew up around its mineral springs, and the town still carries the settled, unhurried air of a place people came to rest in. Southern Illinois Landscaping mows, trims and edges its lawns through the warm months, keeps the beds and leaf drifts cleared, and plows and salts drives and lots when winter comes down off the Kaskaskia flats. Snow here is often wet and heavy, the sort that has to be moved before it sets up like concrete overnight. Opening a drive to the street while the interstate is still whispering a mile north feels like a head start on the whole county. Okawville and the nearby Washington County towns round out the map.