Tree Service in Hanover Park, IL

Hanover Park sits in two counties — Hanover Township in Cook, Bloomingdale Township in DuPage — across 6.53 square miles. Which side of the line your house is on affects a surprising amount of what a tree service Hanover Park residents call has to know, and it is the first thing we check when someone rings from here.

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What The Village Requires

No contractor may do work within the corporate limits without first obtaining a contractor’s license and building permit. General contractors pay $105, all other contractors $50, and each additional trade $10. Bonds run $20,000 for sewer contractors and $10,000 for everyone else, must contain a thirty-day cancellation clause, must be specific to the trade, and run the licensing year from 1 February to 31 January. Inspectional Services is at 2121 Lake Street, 630-823-5860.

The village code carries a Chapter 102 on Trees and Shrubs with a penalty section at 102-12. There is also a driveway rule worth knowing before you widen anything: driveways shall not be widened within the drip line of a parkway tree. That single sentence has stopped a lot of driveway projects here after the concrete was already ordered. Any tree service Hanover Park quotes you near a parkway should raise it before you pour.

Chicago’s Fastest Growing Suburb, Once

The first subdivision broke ground in 1960, when 451 people lived here. By 1970 it was about 11,916, and by 1980 some 28,850 — the village was called Chicago’s fastest growing suburb. The 1960s brought Hanover Highlands and Hanover Gardens. The 1970s brought Olde Salem, Greenbrook, Tempo Village, Larkspur and Fremont. Ontarioville, the older settlement, was folded into the village in 1982.

That growth curve is written into the tree canopy. A subdivision built in 1968 got its trees in 1968 and 1969 — usually a handful of species, planted at the same size, on the same day. Fifty-odd years later they hit maturity together, and they decline together. When three houses on the same street all need work in the same season, that is the reason. It is also why tree service Hanover Park often gets booked by the block rather than by the house. If you are replacing one of that cohort, pick something the builder did not use; the Morton Arboretum keeps regional lists worth reading first.

The West Branch Runs Through It

The USGS operates a gauge inside the village on the West Branch of the DuPage River. The Hanover Park Water Reclamation Plant treats part of the Poplar Creek watershed even though the village opted out of watershed membership for it. Two drainages, one village.

Near-water trees root shallow and grow fast, which is a fine combination until a saturated spring meets a summer storm. The failures we get called to here are overwhelmingly root-plate failures rather than trunk breaks — the whole tree tips, taking a disc of lawn with it. That is the tree service Hanover Park calls us for after a wet spring.

Tree Service Hanover Park: What We Do

• Removals on suburban lots with room to fell, rigged where there is not
• Trimming on subdivision stock that has outgrown its spacing
• Stump grinding
• Lot and fence-line clearing
• Emergency storm work, 24 hours

Ask About Tree Service Hanover Park

Address and what the tree is doing. Tell us whether you are on the Cook or DuPage side if you know — and if you do not, we will work it out.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Streamwood, Bartlett.