Tree Service in Forest View, IL

On 23 January 2024 Forest View passed Ordinance 24-01, creating a parkway tree care and maintenance policy from scratch. For a village of 792 people on roughly one square mile of mostly industrial land, that is a deliberate act. Somebody decided the trees mattered enough to write rules for, and any tree service Forest View property owners bring in now works to them.

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What Ordinance 24-01 Says

The Director of Public Works has full authority and responsibility to plant, prune, maintain and remove trees and woody plants growing in or upon all municipal streets. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to damage, remove, or cause the damage or removal of a tree on public property without permission from the Director.

The ordinance defines the parkway as the area along a public street between the curb and the sidewalk. Where there is no curb or sidewalk, it means the unpaved portion. The ordinance also requires the Director to keep an official list of desirable species in two size classes. Ornamental means twenty feet or less at maturity; Shade means greater than twenty feet. Contractors must employ appropriate measures to protect trees according to Best Management Practices. The two size classes are a familiar split, and the Morton Arboretum lists which species genuinely stay under twenty feet in this climate.

A Village Founded By Veterans, Flooded Ten Times

Forest View dates from 1924. Attorney Joseph Nosek conceived it as a haven for World War I veterans, and it remains, by its own account, the only village in the United States originally governed exclusively by ex-servicemen. In the mid-1920s gangster Ralph Capone forced Nosek and others out of town, and the place picked up the nickname Caponeville. Growth came when Commonwealth Edison built a generating plant between Oak Park and Ridgeland Avenues in 1949. It came again after 1952, with the annexation of industrial land from the Clearing Industrial District. For a while the village went by the trucking capital of the world, and by the Cinderella Village of the 1950s.

The Des Plaines River and the Sanitary and Ship Canal both sit against the village. A levee failure in 2013 flooded the whole of Forest View. The record lists federal flood disaster declarations for 1972, 1973, 1976, 1986, 1987, 1993, 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2023 — ten of them.

Ten floods is not a hazard profile, it is a growing condition. Trees here have spent a meaningful share of their lives in saturated ground. The result is shallow, wide root plates that hold fine in still air and lift as a single disc in a straight-line wind.

Industrial Corridor Work

Forest View is primarily an industrial corridor next to Garfield Ridge, about nine miles southwest of the Loop near Harlem Avenue and the Stevenson. Midway sits roughly two and a half miles southeast. Only 288 housing units sit in the whole village.

That balance changes what the work looks like. Most of what we do here is commercial and property management rather than residential backyards. It means clearance over yards and loading areas, deadwood over parking, and storm damage on industrial frontages. We schedule the tree service Forest View businesses need around deliveries and shift changes more often than around weekends.

Tree Service Forest View: What We Do

• Removals on commercial and residential property alike
• Clearance pruning over yards, drives and loading areas
• Stump grinding
• Lot clearing on industrial parcels and river-side ground
• Storm and flood response, 24 hours

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Address, and whether the tree is on the parkway or behind it. Ordinance 24-01 makes that distinction the whole question. Village Hall is at 7000 West 46th Street, 708-788-3429.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Stickney, Lyons.