Tree Service in Crestwood, IL

Crestwood’s tree code opens with a prohibition rather than a permit. Section 91.01: “No person shall plant or cause to be planted in the village any poplar or cottonwood trees.” Not on the parkway — anywhere in the village. Both species are fast, brittle, shallow-rooted and prone to dropping limbs in wind, and Crestwood decided decades ago it had seen enough of them. That is why any tree service Crestwood residents call should know the banned list before it quotes a replacement.

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Who Maintains The Parkway In Crestwood

You do, mostly. Section 90.07 makes each person residing on or owning property abutting village streets responsible for the parkway. That means keeping it free from weeds, overhanging branches lower than seven feet above the ground, and other noxious matter. Section 91.02(A) sets that seven-foot standard for street and public-place trees, so branches do not interfere with people using the walks or streets. In practice, most tree service Crestwood homeowners book is about keeping that seven-foot line.

The village retains its own authority. Section 91.02(B)(2) lets the Superintendent of Public Works trim any tree or shrub, or remove any tree or branch, to clear an obstruction or a danger. Under 91.04, injuring any tree or shrub in any public place is unlawful except by permission of the Director of Public Works. Attaching wire or rope to a public tree needs Board permission, under 91.03(B)(1).

Section 91.35(A) declares any dead or dying tree, shrub or plant a public nuisance. It applies whether the tree is on village property or private property.

Licensing Here Runs Through The Building Trades

Chapter 115 licenses building contractors — those constructing, repairing or altering a building, structure, street or sidewalk pavement for which a permit is required. It requires a $5,000 corporate surety bond and workers’ compensation. Public liability runs at a minimum $50,000 per person and $100,000 per accident on bodily injury, plus $25,000 property damage. Tree work is not named in that definition. That is worth knowing. In Crestwood the constraint on any tree service Crestwood residents hire is the ordinance and the ISA valuation, not a trade license.

Tinley Creek, The Cal-Sag, And A Ballpark

Crestwood covers 3.08 square miles and grew from 1,213 people in 1960 to 10,852 by 1980 — a nine-fold increase in twenty years. Tinley Creek and the Cal-Sag Channel both feature in its flood record. There is a named flood point at 135th Street and Playfield, and one FEMA repetitive-loss property. Ozinga Field, home of the Windy City ThunderBolts, sits here, and 127th Street crosses the Cal-Sag on a bridge.

Twenty years of construction means twenty years of planting, and 1960s and 70s subdivision trees are now at or past their designed size. On the streets that went in first, the canopy has closed over the road. That looks lovely, and it means every storm puts limbs over the pavement. That accounts for most of the tree service Crestwood buys between June and September.

Tree Service Crestwood Homeowners Actually Need

• Removals, including the poplars and cottonwoods the village will not let you replace
• Trimming to the seven-foot clearance Section 90.07 makes your responsibility
• Stump grinding
• Clearing along creek banks and rear lot lines
• Storm response, any hour

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Address and species if you know it. If you are replacing what comes out, tell us. Poplar and cottonwood are off the table here, and we will suggest something the village will actually allow. The Morton Arboretum in Lisle keeps a sound regional list if you would rather look first.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Midlothian, Oak Forest.