Pro Tree Service is a family-owned Mokena tree service that has been working in the Chicago southland since 1989. We trim and remove trees, grind stumps, clear lots, and respond to storm damage for homeowners, property managers, commercial sites, and municipalities across Illinois and northwest Indiana.
Our yard is at 19253 South Blackhawk Parkway in Mokena, and it has always been the place we work out of. We are not a franchise and not a call center routing your job to whoever is available. When you call, you reach the company that will do the work.
- 1989Year we started, in Mokena
- EmployeesOur own crews, not subcontractors
- 30+Municipalities we hold bonds and registrations in
- 24/7Storm response
What a Mokena Tree Service Can Tell You That a Broker Cannot
A lot of what gets sold as tree service in this market is a sales operation with a phone number. The company that quotes your job is not the company that shows up, and the crew that arrives has no relationship with whoever priced it. That is where most of the complaints in this trade come from.
We are built the other way, and three things follow from it.
- The crews are our employeesThey are on our payroll and our workers compensation policy. That matters to you for a practical reason beyond quality: if someone is hurt on your property, the coverage question has a clean answer. When a company subcontracts, that answer gets complicated, and it gets complicated on your homeowner’s policy.
- We own the equipmentCrane, bucket trucks, chippers, and stump grinders, all in-house. We are not renting a crane and passing the day rate to you, and we are not scheduling around somebody else’s availability. When a removal needs a crane, we bring ours.
- We carry the paperworkBonds, contractor registrations, and certificates of insurance across 30-plus Chicagoland municipalities, kept current. For a commercial or municipal buyer this is usually the thing that decides whether a bid is even accepted.
Who We Work For
Roughly half our work is residential — the dead ash in the back yard, limbs over a roof, a tree that came down in a storm. The rest is commercial and institutional: property management companies, homeowner associations, industrial sites, developers clearing lots, and municipalities.
Those two sides of the business need different things. Homeowners want a straight price and a crew that cleans up. Commercial and municipal customers want certificates of insurance naming the right entity, bond confirmation, a W-9, and a contractor who is already registered in the village before the purchase order is written. We handle both, and the paperwork side is not an afterthought here.
If you need a certificate of insurance, bond confirmation, or a W-9 for a bid package or a management company, ask and we will send it. We can usually turn a COI around the same day, made out to a property owner, a management company, or a municipality.
Equipment and Capability
Most tree companies in this market can handle a straightforward removal in an open yard. The jobs that separate outfits are the ones with no room — a large tree between two houses, something over a garage or a pool, a trunk leaning toward a neighbor’s roof.
That work needs a crane, and it needs operators who use one regularly rather than occasionally. We run our own crane and bucket trucks, chippers, and stump grinders. Every removal includes haul-away of the wood and brush, and we grind stumps four to eight inches below grade, deeper if you intend to replant in the same spot.
Storm Response
When a significant wind or ice event moves through, demand across the whole region spikes in the same hour. We stage crews in the affected area rather than spreading them across the map. Trees on occupied structures come first, then blocked driveways and access, then everything else.
During a large regional event that can mean a wait. We will tell you honestly where you sit in the queue rather than promise a window we cannot hold. If a tree is into a service line, call the utility first and stay clear of any limb touching a wire.
Where We Work
We work throughout the Chicago southland and southwest suburbs, north and northwest Cook County in scheduled blocks, and across the state line into northwest Indiana. Our coverage is organized by county: Cook, Will, and DuPage in Illinois, and northwest Indiana across the line. The full list is on our service area page.
If your town is not listed, call. We will tell you straight away whether we reach you rather than send someone out to find out.
What to Expect From an Estimate
Tell us the address and what you are looking at — a leaning trunk, limbs over the roof, a dead ash, storm damage. We come out, look at the tree, and give you a written price. There is no charge and no obligation, and we schedule estimates any day of the week.
If a permit is required for the address, or if the tree turns out to be a parkway tree under village jurisdiction rather than yours, we will tell you that before you spend money on it. Ash trees in particular are worth asking about early. Once a dead ash dries out it can no longer be climbed safely, and it has to come down from a bucket or crane, which costs considerably more than removing the same tree the year it died. The Morton Arboretum has a good plain-language explanation of what emerald ash borer does and how to tell how far along a tree is.
Pro Tree Service · 19253 South Blackhawk Parkway #80, Mokena, Illinois 60448 · Serving Illinois and northwest Indiana since 1989 · Storm response 24 hours a day, 7 days a week