Tree Service in Hillside, IL

Hillside is stricter about who may do this work than almost any village around it. A tree service Hillside has not vetted is not supposed to be on a job here at all. Section 98-94(a) makes it unlawful to engage in the business of planting, cutting, trimming, pruning, removing, spraying or otherwise treating trees within the village. Evidence of certification has to reach the village first. Section 98-94(b) sets the insurance floor: $250,000 for bodily injury or death and $50,000 property damage, indemnifying the village and anyone injured.

Ask any bidder whether they have filed that. It is a fair question here in a way it is not one town over.

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Hillside Runs Tree Permits Through A Tree Board

Most towns route a public-tree permit through a department head. Hillside routes it through a board. Under Section 98-97(a), no person may plant, remove or disturb any tree on any street or other public place without first filing an application. The permit comes from the village tree board. Section 98-97(b) extends it — no person or contractor may perform any maintenance or removal of a municipal tree without a permit either. Article II, Section 98-31 puts the village administrator and the director of public works on that board.

There is a second permit most people never hear about. Section 74-257, added by Ordinance 07-23 in 2007, states that tree trimming in the public right-of-way “shall not be considered a normal maintenance operation.” It requires its own permit.

What Comes Off Your Bill If It Goes Wrong

Section 98-101 treats each day as a separate offense. Where someone damages a tree on village property, the cost of repair or replacement falls on the party in violation. The International Society of Arboriculture’s evaluation guide sets that replacement value, not what a nursery would charge for a sapling. A mature parkway tree valued that way is a five-figure number. The ISA’s homeowner guidance explains plainly why a mishandled tree loses worth so quickly.

Wolf Road, Roosevelt, And Five Cemeteries

Hillside covers 3.17 square miles between Wolf Road, Roosevelt Road and Harrison Street. German Lutheran families settled the area in the 1840s. The farmland gave way to subdivisions through the 1920s, and the village went from 1,080 people in 1940 to 2,131 in 1950 to 7,794 in 1960.

Then there are the cemeteries — Mount Carmel established in 1894, Oak Ridge, Glen Oak, Queen of Heaven from 1947, and Immanuel Lutheran. They occupy a real share of the village and carry some of the oldest and largest trees in it. Cemetery trees are their own kind of work. They are mature, they stand over headstones and monuments, there is no room to drop anything, and there is nothing underneath you can afford to hit. It is the most exacting tree service Hillside asks for, and all of it comes down on ropes.

Tree Service Hillside: What We Do

• Removals rigged down in sections where dropping is not an option
• Pruning to ANSI A300 — and never topping, which the code forbids
• Stump grinding
• Commercial and institutional work along the Wolf Road and Roosevelt corridors
• Storm response at any hour

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Tell us the address and whether the tree is yours or the village’s. If it stands between the sidewalk and the street, it is a tree board matter. We will say so before we quote it.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Westchester, Maywood, Berkeley.