The village took its name from the cement works, and the ground still remembers it: level lots, old foundations, soil that dries fast after a rain. Elegant Lawns LLC mows and maintains yards around Cement City, working late into the long amber evenings that September hands out along the Irish Hills. There is craft in the last pass of the day, the one that sets the stripe and squares the corner by the mailbox. Autumn brings the leaf work; spring brings the first cut of a season that has been waiting under snow since November. Every yard here sits within sight of a hill or a lake road, and a kept one holds its own in that company.