Pekin climbs up from the Illinois River in terraces, and the older neighborhoods above the bluff are planted thick — oaks, sycamores, and maples that turn the streets around Mineral Springs Park into a tunnel by August. B & C Tree Service works those blocks and the bottom ground below them, doing tree trimming and pruning to keep a crown clear of the house and tree removal when a stem has gone soft over the sidewalk. River weather comes up the valley fast in summer, so storm damage cleanup is the business of getting a driveway open, a limb off the porch roof, and every last stick out of the grass. This is a town that plants marigolds by the thousand; people here notice what a yard looks like. A finished job ought to look like the tree simply grew that way, and the lawn like nobody was ever on it.