Tree Removal in Burbank, IL

Burbank draws a harder line than any of its neighbors, and it is worth knowing before you book tree removal Burbank work with anyone. The city states it plainly: “The City does not permit private contractors or other agencies to trim City trees.” Only Public Works staff or the homeowner may trim a parkway tree, and the municipal code prohibits the destruction of any parkway tree.

So if a tree company offers to trim your parkway tree in Burbank, they are offering something they are not allowed to do. We will not, and we will tell you to call Public Works on 708-924-7390 instead.

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Everything Behind The Sidewalk Is Still Ours

The parkway restriction is narrow. It covers the public right-of-way — the strip between sidewalk and street. Your front yard, your backyard, the tree over your garage, the one leaning toward the neighbor’s fence: all of that is private property and all of it is work we do. If you are the one pruning the parkway tree, which the code does allow, the ISA’s homeowner guidance is worth ten minutes before the ladder comes out.

Burbank Public Works trims parkway trees to keep a healthy stock and keep residents, pedestrians and motorists safe from dead or weak branches, works requests in the order received, removes the cut branches from the parkway, and offers cut logs and wood chips to any local resident. Branches over three feet are picked up on request. That is a decent service — but it is a queue, and it only ever reaches the parkway. Every tree removal Burbank homeowners actually pay for sits on the other side of that line, and there is no waiting list for it.

A City That Incorporated To Stay Out Of Chicago

Burbank incorporated in 1970 partly to resist annexation by the City of Chicago — and by then it was already a town of over 20,000 people. The area moved from Lyons Township to Stickney Township in 1901. The housing stock is roughly ninety percent residential, developed across the 1920s subdivision boom and the 1950s–60s expansion, with 9,784 housing units on 4.17 square miles. Population peaked at 29,448 in 1976 and has barely moved since.

Two building eras, both long past. The 1920s bungalow stock carries whatever survived from the original plantings; the post-war streets carry a cohort planted in a fifteen-year window. Both are now well past the age where deadwood starts appearing in the upper canopy every season. That aging cohort is where most tree removal Burbank asks us for comes from now.

Everything Overhead, And The Melvina Ditch

Burbank’s utilities are all above ground. There is almost no manufacturing here — over half of city revenue comes from retail sales taxes, concentrated on Harlem and Cicero Avenues — and recurring power outages come from winter storms and high winds.

All-overhead utilities plus mature canopy is the combination that produces outages, and it is why so much of the work here is clearance rather than the tree removal Burbank callers usually assume they need. The city sits in the Calumet Sag Channel watershed, with flood-prone points at the 8600 block of Rutherford, Narragansett between 81st and 85th, Parkside between 78th and 79th, and 83rd between Narragansett and Melvina. The Melvina Ditch Reservoir was expanded to cut overflow. Four repetitive-loss properties. Annual precipitation runs about 38.35 inches.

Tree Removal In Burbank: What We Do

• Removals on private property — front yard, backyard, anywhere behind the sidewalk
• Trimming to pull limbs off roofs, drives and service drops on your own trees
• Stump grinding
• Back-lot clearing
• Emergency storm work, any hour

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Tell us the address and where the tree stands relative to the sidewalk. That one detail decides whether it is our job or the city’s, and we would rather sort it out on the phone than on your driveway.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Bridgeview, Oak Lawn.