Pro Tree Service handles tree service in Oak Brook, IL — removals, trimming and pruning, stump grinding, lot clearing and 24-hour storm response. We have worked Chicago and the western suburbs since 1989.
Tree Work in Oak Brook
Oak Brook runs two kinds of tree work side by side. There is the corporate side — office campuses, hotel and retail frontage, parking structures — where the constraint is access and timing rather than the tree, and where a drop zone closes a lane or a dock if nobody plans around it. We schedule that work around your operation, including outside business hours. Then there is the residential side, where the lots are large enough that most removals can be worked from the ground rather than rigged piece by piece over a roof.
We are not going to invent local color about Oak Brook that we cannot stand behind. What we can tell you is how we work: we prune to ANSI A300 standards, every removal includes haul-away of the wood and brush, and we grind stumps four to eight inches below grade. Our full service pages cover the detail — trimming and pruning, tree and bush removal, stump grinding and land and lot clearing.
Salt Creek and Wet Ground
Salt Creek runs through Oak Brook, and the ground along it behaves differently from the rest of the village. In saturated soil a tree does not snap partway up — it goes over at the root plate and brings the root ball with it, which makes the cleanup a bigger job than it looks from the road. Trees near the creek are worth looking at before a storm rather than after one.
Dead Ash
Emerald ash borer moved through the western suburbs years ago and the standing dead ash are still coming down. A dead ash turns brittle as it dries and loses the strength a climber needs to work it safely, so every year one stands it costs more to take down. If there is a gray, bare ash on the property, deal with that one first.
Whose Tree Is It
The parkway tree — the strip between the sidewalk and the street — is often owned by the village rather than the property owner, which means removing it is not your call to make. Requirements differ town to town, and Oak Brook sits across a county line, so they are not always what a neighbouring village would tell you. We confirm what the village actually requires — registration, permit, or neither — before we bid the job, not after you have accepted a price.
Storm Damage
We answer the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and we work by hazard rather than call order. If there are wires involved, stay away from the tree, call 911, then call ComEd at 1-800-334-7661. See emergency and storm response.
Get an Estimate in Oak Brook
Tell us the address and what you are looking at. A photo helps. Estimates are free, any day of the week.
Call 708-424-5885 or request one online.
Most of Oak Brook lies in DuPage County, with a portion in Cook County. We work both sides of the line, along with Will County and northwest Indiana.