October along Schoenbeck Road turns the parkway maples into something worth slowing down for, and about a week later the whole show is lying on the grass. CNAVA Lawncare LLC handles the mowing and trimming that carries a Wheeling lawn from April onward, then the long fall work of raking, blowing and hauling leaves off the turf before they smother it. A lawn cleaned down in November comes back greener in May; that is the standing bargain of a northern Illinois yard. The last cut of the year goes a little shorter on purpose, edges tightened, beds cleared to soil. Then the grass sleeps and the town goes quiet under its first gray sky.