Evenings in late June come long and gold over Wheeling, the light stretching east down Dundee Road until the shadows of the parkway trees reach clear across the lawns. Palatine Elite Lawn Care works those hours — mowing at a height that keeps the roots cool, edging the sidewalk line clean, trimming the corners a mower deck can never quite reach. There is a smell to a yard cut right, green and sweet, and it hangs around a block long after the trailer gate has closed. Summer here is week after week on the same lawns, each pass a little better than the last. By the final mow of fall the grass lies short and even, ready to sleep under whatever comes.