River Forest wears its winters well: broad oaks bare against the sky, wide Prairie-style eaves holding a ledge of white, and long stretches of public sidewalk that somebody has to clear before the neighborhood starts walking. River Forest Snow Removal takes that on — the drive opened curb to garage, the walk cut full width rather than one shovel wide, the front steps scraped and salted so nobody has to test them. Storms here can drop wet, heavy snow that comes off the branches in slabs an hour later, which means a second look is part of the job. Plowing, shoveling, salting and de-icing, through the night and again at first light. The result is a street where people still take their morning walk in January. That seems like a fine thing to be responsible for.