Tree Removal in Ford Heights, IL

Ford Heights charges for large tree debris on a basis no other village around here uses, and it lands on every tree removal Ford Heights property owners arrange. Section 40-23(5) provides that trees, large branches and logs require special arrangement and payment of the actual cost of the labor required, plus ten percent. Ordinary trimmings over three bushel baskets may be removed on request; a felled tree is billed.

Every removal we do here includes haul-away. You never see that line.

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A Permit To Plant And A Permit To Remove

Chapter 52, Article II runs Sections 52-19 through 52-26. Section 52-19: it is unlawful to plant any tree or bush in any public street or parkway or other public place without having secured a permit, with applications going to the village clerk and then to the plan review committee. Under 52-20, removing or cutting down any tree or shrub in any public place without a permit is unlawful, with board of trustees approval required before issuance. Section 52-21 makes it unlawful to injure any tree or shrub planted or growing in any public place. Attaching any wire or rope to a tree needs board approval under 52-24.

Section 52-23 splits the duty. The owner of the abutting premises, or of the premises where the tree grows, must trim it — and must remove any tree or limb which has become likely to fall on or across any public way. The superintendent of streets may independently trim any such tree or remove any branch.

Deer Creek, And Nine Repetitive-Loss Homes

Deer Creek is the named watercourse here, and the village’s own assessment says many homes near it are prone to flooding during storm events. Ford Heights carries nine FEMA repetitive-loss properties — eight single-family and one two-to-four family — plus one severe repetitive-loss property, in a village of about 1,800 people.

Nine repetitive-loss properties against that population is a high concentration. The village also notes that the parking lot at the shelter floods frequently. It sits on the edge of the Tinley Moraine, in the Little Calumet watershed.

Creek-side trees on repeatedly saturated ground root shallow and wide. They rarely snap. They tip — whole, with the root plate lifting out of the ground like a hatch. If you have a big tree between your house and Deer Creek, the base is where to look, not the branches. Tree removal Ford Heights needs near that water is usually decided at the root plate.

Park Addition, 1920s

The community grew from the Park Addition subdivision developed in the early 1920s, was known as East Chicago Heights by the 1930s, incorporated in 1949, and was renamed Ford Heights in 1987. Ford Motor Company opened a stamping plant next to the village in 1956, and population peaked at 5,347 in 1980. The area served as a stopping point on the Underground Railroad for people escaping slavery. Village Hall is on Ellis Avenue.

A century of growth with limited recent development means the trees here are old — original Park Addition plantings and volunteer growth on parcels that have been open a long time. Neither category has had regular maintenance, and both need honest assessment rather than an automatic quote. University of Illinois Extension has straightforward homeowner material on judging a declining tree.

Tree Removal Ford Heights: What We Do

• Removals, hauled complete — no cost-plus-ten-percent village bill
• Trimming of the overhanging limbs Section 52-23 makes your responsibility
• Stump grinding
• Lot clearing — volunteer growth on open and creek-side parcels
• Storm and flood response, 24 hours

Pricing Tree Removal Ford Heights Work

Address and what the tree is doing. Estimates are free and cost you nothing whether or not you go ahead — and if a trim will do instead of a takedown, we will say so.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Sauk Village, Chicago Heights.