Winter arrives in Wheeling on a northwest wind that has crossed a hundred miles of open Illinois ground before it ever reaches Wolf Road. A&M Landscaping and Snow Removal works those hours — plowing lots, opening walks and laying salt while the industrial park is still a grid of empty streetlight. There is a particular pride in a loading-dock apron scraped down to bare pavement, in the long clean windrow pushed to the far curb where it steals not one parking stall. By the time the first shift pulls in, the only evidence left is grit underfoot and a driveway that behaves like it is July. That is the whole job: making a storm look like it happened somewhere else.