Gray Tree Service

About Gray Tree Service

Mount Prospect grew up around the tracks, and the streets running off them are held together by parkway trees — honeylocust and silver maple arched over the sidewalks, with older oaks leaning toward Weller Creek where it slips behind the back yards. Gray Tree Service tends that canopy the way the village leans on it: pruning young parkway trees so they clear the walk, tree trimming to keep limbs off gutters and service lines, tree removal when a trunk goes soft at the base. Chicago storms come through in a hurry on a July evening, and storm damage cleanup means a driveway open before the morning commute and a lawn cleared of splinters so the kids can be back in it by afternoon. The reward is the block afterward, light coming through the leaves unbroken, nothing on the parkway but mown grass. Shade is the whole point, and it takes tending to keep.