Its fenced back yard with well-tended grass has a brown painted picnic table, swing love seat and lounging chairs.

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Pools also take up a lot of the yard, and many people would rather have grass that their dogs or kids can run around on.

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Their front yard was torn up after replacing a sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park woman put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.

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