Tree Service in Cicero, IL

Cicero puts a price on the trade. Specifically, Section 26-101(13) lists license fees line by line. Among them sits “Tree trimming, cutters, etc. …..200.00.” It sits below “Landscaping services …..250.00” and “General contractor …..300.00.” Applications for the occupations in that subsection must be accompanied by a bond of $10,000.00. A town that gives tree cutting its own priced line has therefore decided the work is a distinct trade. So any crew doing tree removal Cicero regulates ought to be able to put that license in your hand. A crew that cannot does not hold the license the work requires.

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Trees As Infrastructure — Article III Of Chapter 102

Chapter 102, “Vegetation,” holds Article III “Trees” at 102-61 through 102-68. Division 2 covers dead trees at 102-96 to 102-98. Meanwhile, Section 102-1, on dangerous trees, weeds and shrubs, sits up in Article I. Above all, Section 102-61 is unusually direct about why any of it exists. Trees “are an integral part of the infrastructure of the town, and as such should be preserved, protected and cared for as other critical town infrastructure at all times and not merely during development.” That framing — canopy as infrastructure, on the same footing as pipe and pavement — is rarer in Illinois codes than it should be.

What Tree Removal Cicero Owners May And May Not Do

Section 102-62 creates a Commissioner of Forestry. Moreover, Section 102-63 reserves work on town-owned trees to the commissioner or a contractor the town hired. That covers planting, spraying, fertilizing, pruning, removing and disturbing. It also adopts the ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards, with nursery stock to ANSI Z60.1. By contrast, Section 102-1(a) puts the duty back on owners. Any tree, weed or shrub overhanging a public or private sidewalk, street, stairwell or driveway must be trimmed by the owner, with ten days’ notice. After that, the town’s expenses become a lien on the property until paid.

Section 102-66 prohibits damaging public trees without naming a sum. However, the general penalty at 1-12(a) supplies it. That is not less than $50.00 and not more than $750.00, with each day a separate offense. Public Works is also plain about the parkway. Parkway trees are town trees, and only trees that are dead or pose a potential safety hazard will be considered for removal.

Twelve Percent Canopy In Julius Sterling Morton’s Town

There is an irony written into the street map. One of Cicero’s eight neighborhoods is Morton Park. It carries the name of Julius Sterling Morton, the man who founded Arbor Day. The others carry their own history. Grant Works takes its name from an 1890 locomotive factory. Hawthorne comes from an 1850s quarry, the town’s first industry. Clyde, meanwhile, recalls a river in Scotland.

The canopy has not kept pace with the name. Cicero Independiente reported that the Cicero Public Works Department removed 448 trees between January 2020 and July 14, 2022. Against that, 92 went in. It also reported that canopy covers 12 percent of Cicero, according to the Morton Arboretum’s Chicago Region Trees Initiative. Against a figure that low, the tree removal Cicero owners are weighing is worth a second opinion first. Indeed, some of these trees are savable. The town issued an RFP for a Tree Inventory and Urban Forestry Management Plan dated June 27, 2024. That is the point at which a place starts to reverse the ratio.

Eighty-Five Thousand People On Six Square Miles

Density is the underlying constraint. Cicero holds 85,268 people on about 5.86 square miles, at 14,538 per square mile. It is the eleventh most populous municipality in Illinois. Furthermore, the average age of home properties was greater than 66 years as of 2011. There is no river here. Instead, flooding is a drainage matter. It concentrates north of Cermak Road and at the southeast corner near 32nd Place and 50th Court. It also runs along 57th Court and Avenue and 56th Court. FEMA records no repetitive-loss properties at all. Density is also why so much tree removal Cicero calls us for comes down in pieces.

Tree Work We Carry Out In Cicero

• Removals, especially on lots where the house, the garage and the tree all share sixty feet of frontage
• Trimming to the ANSI A300 standard 102-63 adopts, including overhang the town can put a lien on you for
• Stump grinding in alleys, as well as rear yards with restricted turning room
• Emergency and storm work, too, around the clock

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Tell us the cross streets and whether the tree fronts the parkway or the alley. If it is a town tree we will say so rather than quote it. Free estimates, and no pressure afterward.

Call 708-424-5885. See our Cook County coverage, plus Stickney and Forest View.