Tree Service in Cicero, IL

Cicero puts a price on the trade. Section 26-101(13) lists license fees line by line. Among them sits “Tree trimming, cutters, etc. …..200.00,” below “Landscaping services …..250.00” and “General contractor …..300.00.” Applications for the occupations in that subsection must be accompanied by a bond of $10,000.00. A town that gives tree cutting its own priced line has decided the work is a distinct trade. So any tree removal Cicero sees ought to be done by a crew that can put that license in your hand. One that cannot is not licensed for what it is doing.

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Trees As Infrastructure — Article III Of Chapter 102

Chapter 102, “Vegetation,” holds Article III “Trees” at 102-61 through 102-68, plus Division 2 on dead trees at 102-96 to 102-98. Section 102-1, on dangerous trees, weeds and shrubs, sits up in Article I. Section 102-61 is unusually direct about why any of it exists. Trees “are an integral part of the infrastructure of the town, and as such should be preserved, protected and cared for as other critical town infrastructure at all times and not merely during development.” That framing — canopy as infrastructure, on the same footing as pipe and pavement — is rarer in Illinois codes than it should be.

What Tree Removal Cicero Owners May And May Not Do

Section 102-62 creates a Commissioner of Forestry. Section 102-63 reserves planting, spraying, fertilizing, pruning, removing and disturbing town-owned trees to the commissioner or a contractor the town hired. It also adopts the ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards, with nursery stock to ANSI Z60.1. Section 102-1(a) puts the duty back on owners. Any tree, weed or shrub overhanging a public or private sidewalk, street, stairwell or driveway must be trimmed by the owner, with ten days’ notice. After that, the town’s expenses become a lien on the property until paid.

Section 102-66 prohibits damaging public trees without naming a sum. The general penalty at 1-12(a) supplies it: not less than $50.00 and not more than $750.00, each day a separate offense. Public Works is plain about the parkway. Parkway trees are town trees, and only trees that are dead or pose a potential safety hazard will be considered for removal.

Twelve Percent Canopy In Julius Sterling Morton’s Town

There is an irony written into the street map. One of Cicero’s eight neighborhoods is Morton Park, christened in honor of Julius Sterling Morton — the man who founded Arbor Day. The others carry their own history. Grant Works is named after an 1890 locomotive factory, Hawthorne after an 1850s quarry that was the town’s first industry, and Clyde recalls a river in Scotland.

The canopy has not kept pace with the name. Cicero Independiente reported that 448 trees were removed by the Cicero Public Works Department between January 2020 and 14 July 2022, against 92 planted. It also reported that Cicero is covered 12 percent in canopy, according to the Morton Arboretum’s Chicago Region Trees Initiative. Against a figure that low, tree removal Cicero owners are weighing up is worth a second opinion first. Some of these trees are savable. The town issued an RFP for a Tree Inventory and Urban Forestry Management Plan dated 27 June 2024. That is the point at which a place starts to reverse the ratio.

Eighty-Five Thousand People On Six Square Miles

Density is the underlying constraint. Cicero holds 85,268 people on about 5.86 square miles, at 14,538 per square mile. It is the eleventh most populous municipality in Illinois. The average age of home properties was greater than 66 years as of 2011. There is no river here. Flooding is a drainage matter, concentrated north of Cermak Road, at the south-east corner near 32nd Place and 50th Court, and along 57th Court and Avenue and 56th Court. FEMA records no repetitive-loss properties at all. Density is also why so much tree removal Cicero calls us for has to come down in pieces rather than in one drop.

Tree Work We Carry Out In Cicero

• Removals on lots where the house, the garage and the tree all share sixty feet of frontage
• Trimming to the ANSI A300 standard 102-63 adopts, including overhang the town can put a lien on you for
• Stump grinding in alleys and rear yards with restricted turning room
• Emergency and storm work, round the clock

Get A Tree Removal Cicero Quote

Tell us the cross streets and whether the tree fronts the parkway or the alley. If it is a town tree we will say so rather than quote it. Free estimates, and no pressure afterward.

Call 708-424-5885. See our Cook County coverage, plus Stickney and Forest View.