Tree Service in Country Club Hills, IL

Country Club Hills is one of very few municipalities in the south suburbs with a standalone arborist license. That means the tree service Country Club Hills buys for its street and park trees is regulated at the contractor, not only at the tree. Section 5.3.13 makes it unlawful for any person or firm to engage in the business or occupation of pruning, treating or removing Street or Park Trees within the city without first applying for and obtaining one. Evidence of liability insurance must be filed for bodily injury and property damage indemnifying the city. Public service companies and city employees are exempt.

Section 5.3.05 adds a permit on top. It is unlawful to remove or cut down any tree or shrub in any public place without one. The application goes to the city Clerk, and the Tree Superintendent approves it before issuance.

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Half-Acre Lots, Built From 1955

Country Club Hills began in 1955. Local developer J. E. Merrion set out to build spacious, affordable, middle-income homes with a country atmosphere. Families came for the half-acre lots, the award-winning house styles and the sprawling streets. About 117 homes were finished by 1956, and the city incorporated on 12 July 1958. It now covers roughly 4.8 square miles with 16,775 people.

Half-acre lots change the work completely. There is room to fell rather than rig, room for equipment, and room for trees that have grown to full size without anything crowding them. Seventy years on, those are big trees on generous ground. A full-sized specimen with an unrestricted crown carries a great deal more weight than the same species squeezed onto a narrow lot.

Parkway Rules For Tree Service Country Club Hills

Chapter 14, Article 4 requires parkways to hold natural trees of at least ten feet height and two inches caliper above grade. That means at least one per parkway and one per forty linear feet of street yard. Species must reach forty feet or more at maturity, with a crown spread of thirty-five feet or more. Fences are not permitted in parkways. No more than fifteen percent of the required parkway, excluding sidewalks, brick pavers and driveways, may be impervious surface.

Section 5.3.04 puts maintenance on the owner. Trees must be kept in a healthy state — alive, disease and insect free — with foliage pruned to eight feet, and diseased or dead trees removed by the owner at the owner’s expense. The code bans topping at 5.3.09, defined as cutting limbs back to stubs larger than three inches. It is a practice the ISA’s homeowner guidance has argued against for decades. Section 5.3.10 requires all stumps of Street and Park Trees removed below the surface so no top projects above ground.

Two Interstates And A Storm Record To Match

Both I-80 and I-57 pass through the city’s boundaries, with Cook County Forest Preserve land on the west and south borders. The largest undeveloped parcel is the Gatling Square Mile, four hundred acres.

The storm record is blunt about what weather does here. Thousands of trees damaged, hundreds snapped or uprooted. Falling trees damaged several houses, some of them significantly, and damaged or crushed numerous vehicles. The city sits in the Little Calumet and Hickory Creek watersheds. It holds a Community Rating System Class 8 and carries one FEMA repetitive-loss property.

Big trees on big lots is a fine thing until straight-line winds arrive. Most of what tree service Country Club Hills actually needs is weight reduction and deadwood removal on mature specimens. That work costs a fraction of a removal, and it is the difference between a tree that sheds a limb and one that splits.

Branch Pickup, And What It Will Not Take

City branch pickup runs spring and fall. Branches must be cut into three to four foot lengths, no wider than six inches in diameter. They may go in yard waste bags or be bundled with twine, each bundle needing a yard waste sticker. A takedown produces material well outside those limits. Ours goes on our truck.

Tree Service Country Club Hills: What We Do

• Weight reduction and deadwood removal on full-sized specimens — the main need on half-acre lots
• Removals, licensed under 5.3.13, with the 5.3.05 permit handled first where it applies
• Stump grinding below grade, as Section 5.3.10 requires
• Clearing along the forest preserve boundaries
• Storm response, 24 hours

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Address and rough size. On a half-acre lot the question is usually whether the tree needs reducing rather than removing. We will tell you when it does not need to come out. Public Works Operations Center, 18300 Marycrest Drive, 708-798-3392.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Hazel Crest, Matteson.