Tree Removal and Trimming in Hodgkins, IL

Every contractor working in the village has to register, a tree service Hodgkins included, and the village charges nothing for it. The village states plainly that all contractors performing work in Hodgkins will need to register, requiring a current copy of a contractor’s license from any major city in Illinois, a certificate of insurance naming the Village as additionally insured, and a $10,000 bond — and adds that at this time there is no fee for registration. Free is not the same as optional. Ask whoever quotes your tree whether they are on that register.

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What The Hodgkins Code Does And Does Not Say

We could locate no tree preservation chapter in the Hodgkins code. There is no removal permit, no DBH threshold, no parkway tree ownership rule and no published tree penalty. We say that rather than borrow a rule from a neighboring village, because guessing at a section number is worse than admitting a gap. It also means a tree service Hodgkins hires is working to its own standard rather than the village’s.

The nearest thing is section 8-2-10, which sits under sidewalks, driveways and parkways. It provides that “no encumbrance other than bushes, grass, flowers, trees and decorative rocks shall be established” in the parkway — trees are on the permitted list, not the prohibited one. The same section requires an owner to maintain the area between the lot line and the curb line free from weeds and other noxious herbage or matter, and requires business licensees to keep and maintain the public sidewalk and parkway in good repair.

What follows from that, practically, is that a Hodgkins parkway tree is your maintenance problem in a way it would not be one village over. There is no forestry division here to inherit it, no trim cycle to wait for, and no arborist class in the registration scheme. Public Works handles village ground; anything else falls to owners. Yard waste goes out in biodegradable paper bags, and Hodgkins is not a Tree City USA.

Fifteen Thousand Jobs, Fourteen Hundred Residents

Hodgkins is a village of roughly 1,472 people — a school district source gives 1,897 for 2017, and the two do not reconcile — across 2.64 square miles that hold something in the order of 15,000 jobs. The village has said as much: by using economic tools, Hodgkins has attracted more than 15,000 jobs to the community. Santa Fe Improvement Park carries DPI Specialty Foods, Pro-Trans Logistics and a UPS package sorting facility described as the largest of its kind, with Walmart, Sam’s Club, Kohl’s and Target anchoring the retail. Kimball and Cobb Stone Company was sold to Vulcan Materials in 1897, and Vulcan still owns the local quarry.

That ratio shapes the tree work. Most of the mature canopy in Hodgkins stands not on residential streets but around truck yards, distribution aprons, parking lots and rail sidings — trees planted as screening decades ago, now large, mostly unpruned, and standing over things that move heavy freight all day. Screening trees are rarely inspected until one of them lands somewhere expensive. Most tree service Hodgkins actually buys is therefore commercial, scheduled around freight movements rather than weekends.

The Des Plaines River borders the southern and eastern edges, and I-55 and I-294 traverse the village. Despite the river, FEMA records zero repetitive-loss and zero severe properties. Hodgkins incorporated in 1896 and sits in Lyons Township, with the Village Hall at 8990 Lyons Street.

Tree Services In Hodgkins

• Removals on commercial and industrial sites, scheduled around loading dock hours
• Pruning of screening rows along yard perimeters and truck routes
• Stump grinding in hardstand and gravel as well as lawn
• Emergency and storm work, day or night, for homes and businesses

Quoting Tree Service Hodgkins Work

Residential or commercial, tell us the address and what the tree is over. With no village permit stage to negotiate, we can usually move quickly. The estimate is free and there is no obligation.

Call 708-424-5885. See the rest of our Cook County work, or nearby Countryside and McCook.