Tree Service in East Hazel Crest, IL

East Hazel Crest is a village of roughly 1,300 people that licenses tree work as its own occupation. A tree service East Hazel Crest residents call has to hold that license by name. Section 20-10(m): “It shall be unlawful for any person or firm to engage in the business or occupation of pruning, treating or removing street or park trees within the village without first applying for and procuring a license.” The fee is $25 annually in advance. The applicant must carry liability insurance of at least $50,000 for bodily injury and $100,000 property damage.

Villages ten times its size do not go that far. It is a fair thing to ask any bidder about here.

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A Tree Superintendent And A Written Plan

Section 20-10 establishes a Village Tree Superintendent, appointed by the village administrator. The Superintendent is responsible for developing and administering an annual written tree care plan, along with approved small, medium and large species lists and spacing minimums of thirty, forty and fifty feet.

Section 20-10(i) states plainly that the village has the right to plant, prune, maintain and remove trees, plants and shrubs within the lines of all streets, alleys, avenues, lanes, squares and public grounds. Under 20-3, injuring any tree or shrub planted or growing in a public place is unlawful except by permission of the director of public works and buildings. Section 20-2 requires street trees whose branches extend over sidewalks or streets to be trimmed at least seven feet above the ground.

On your own land, Section 20-12 requires every owner to maintain all trees and plants at all times necessary to prevent them becoming a nuisance. Section 20-13 requires prompt removal of any dead, diseased or damaged portion. Between them, those two sections cover most of what a tree service East Hazel Crest homeowners book actually does.

Seventy Percent Of The Dead Trees Are Already Gone

East Hazel Crest budgeted $120,000 for hazardous dead tree removal and reports approximately seventy percent removed to date. For a village of 400 acres, that is a serious commitment — and it tells you what the canopy here has been through.

If your tree survived that program, it was assessed and left standing. If you are looking at one now that worries you, it either changed since, or it is on private ground the program never covered. Either way, the tree service East Hazel Crest still needs is mostly on private lots now, not public ones. If an ash does come out, the Morton Arboretum is the best guide to what will grow in its place.

A Village Created By A Railroad Embankment

East Hazel Crest was part of Hazel Crest, which incorporated in 1911. When the Illinois Central elevated its tracks, the eastern section was cut off, and in 1918 it voted to incorporate on its own. That is the whole reason the village exists: a railroad embankment. It later annexed Bremerton Woods, a small commercial area and residential subdivision west of the tracks. Village administration and the Metra station now sit there.

Today it is 0.78 square miles, over ninety percent single-family residential. It sits in the Little Calumet watershed with about fifteen acres of floodplain and zero repetitive-loss properties. Flooding is named in the Southern Corridor, the Cornell area, and at 158th and Greenwood.

Brush Is Not Collected

Section 17-23 states that bulky hedge trimmings, tree trimmings, building materials and miscellaneous extraordinary items are not included in the refuse covered by the chapter. There is no village route for the material from a removal, which is why haul-away belongs in every tree service East Hazel Crest quote. Everything we cut leaves with us.

What We Do In East Hazel Crest

• Removals, licensed under 20-10(m), with complete haul-away
• Pruning to the seven-foot clearance Section 20-2 requires
• Stump grinding
• Storm response, day or night

Tree Service East Hazel Crest Estimates

Address and species. If it is an ash, elm or silver maple, know before you start that the village will not let the same thing go back in its place. We will suggest what will.

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