LandWorks LawnCare, Inc. has been servicing Freeport/Rockford Illinois and it's surrounding area since 2001. We are licensed and fully insured and we take great pride in our workmanship and the service that we offer.

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Our lawn maintenance team offers a full line of lawn and plant management. Our team is experienced and gets the job done right the first time, so you as a customer have nothing to do but sit back, relax, and enjoy your property.

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Our landscape and installation team performs a wide variety of projects. We are staffed with experienced full time design professionals who will guide you through the design, installation and maintenance of your project. Our installers take pride...

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Whether a commercial parking lot, condo association, or residential driveway, our 24/7 snow removal services will have you covered. With a full line of snow plows and snow removal equipment, our team with years of experience can handle...

LandWorks LawnCare Inc.
We have been in service since 2001. We have built our business by giving the highest regard to customer service. We provide quality workmanship, using the best materials and equipment available.
We at LandWorks LawnCare Inc. experience a high volume of repeat and referred business from our customers. This is a way we separate ourselves from our competitors. A goal of ours is to continue to grow our customer base and develop our business while maintaining our integrity.
No job is ever too big or too small. We understand this is done largely by creating a loyal customer base that depends on our continued reliability and honesty. We are well equipped and well staffed to handle any project.
When you contact us about your project, you will witness the ongoing effort we make to ensure your project is handled with the care it deserves.

Blast from the Past: Snow Plowing in Rockford, IL

Jan 7, 2020 | Snow Plowing Rockford IL

America’s first settlers were not so well-equipped to deal with the New World’s snowy winters. During the 1717 storm (four feet of snow dumped, with drifts of up to 25 feet in some places), only a solitary postman was able to make the trip from Boston to Chicago. His trick? Abandoning his horse for a pair of snowshoes.

Back then, snow plowing Rockford IL wasn’t in the picture. Instead, residents affixed ski-like runners to their carts to move through the icy streets.

But urban development brought with its streets, and people who needed to get through them. Residents depended on regular deliveries of food and firewood. When snow made transport impossible, they would dig themselves out in de-facto teams to allow sleigh traffic to pass through. Though ordinances in many cities required homeowners to clear snow off their sidewalks, snow removal was not yet practiced on a citywide basis.

Historical Account

That changed in the 1840s when the first snowplow patent was issued. According to a wonderfully comprehensive history by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the first snowplow was deployed in Illinois in 1862. They write that the plow “was attached to a cart pulled by a team of horses through the snow-clogged streets.”

Over the next several years, other cities adopted the horse-drawn plow, along with a sense that snow removal was a city’s problem. As the Data Center notes “the invention of the snowplow initiated widespread snow removal efforts in cities and also created a basis for municipal responsibility in snow removal.”

Of course, with great snow plowing in Rockford, IL comes great responsibility. Cities were able to clear main streets, but side streets and sidewalks often ended up blocked off by huge mounds of snow. Again, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, businessmen and townsfolk complained and even brought lawsuits against the plowing companies claiming their storefronts were completely blocked with mounds of plowed snow, making them inaccessible to their customers.

Chicago, Illinois Experience

Chicago handled this by hiring horse-drawn carts and teams of shovelers to work in conjunction with the plows.

However, these advances were no match for the Blizzard of 1888, which paralyzed cities. Some areas saw as much and four feet of snow, trapping people in their homes (or in one tragic case, in a train bound for Chicago City) for days on end. But the storm had an upside – it led cities to develop more comprehensive snow plans. Cities began plowing when storms started, rather than waiting until the end of the storm. Officials divided cities into sections and assigned different areas to different snow plowing in Rockford, IL.

Some cities even tried equipping their electric trolleys with plows, which didn’t work so well.

The last major innovation to snow removal came mid-century. In 1959, space technology entered the snow removal effort. Satellites allowed for more accurate storm forecasting and quicker preparation.

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