Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative
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Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative
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We are an independent community group working to expand and improve the tree canopy in Berwyn, Illinois.

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Unfortunately we still see volcano mulch. A lot.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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During the Corrida del Mariachi 5k, we definitely observed that spectators were clustered around the trees along the route — in those places that offered shade.
August 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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We are out here at the Corrida del Mariachi vendor row on Wesley Avenue between 16th and 18th Streets, Berwyn, Illinois. Come and see us! We are helping homeowners request free parkway trees from the City and getting signatures for our petition calling for proactive tree planting.
August 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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We got 22 native trees and shrubs planted on the grounds, and we planted a native garden at the corner of 14th of Wesley.
June 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Thank you to everyone who came out and helped yesterday morning at our planting event around St. Mary of Celle Church. We got 22 native trees and shrubs planted on the grounds, and we planted a native garden at the corner of 14th of Wesley.
June 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The newly planted tree in Lesak Park is a dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides).

Some information about this species here: mortonarb.org/plant-and-pr...
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Happy #ArborDay!

There was a great little Arbor Day celebratory tree planting this morning in Berwyn, Illinois with the City Public Works Department, Berwyn Township, and enthusiastic kids from Hiawatha School with great questions for the city arborist Nicholas Peterson.
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Some of our members presented the Mayor with an oak tree sapling and addressed City Council in the public forum during last night's meeting. We provided this letter, map, and list of planting locations. www.youtube.com/live/F280oag...
Screenshot from YouTube livestream of the April 22, 2025 Berwyn, Illinois City Council meeting open forum showing a Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative member handing an oak sapling presented to the Mayor over to 4th Ward Alderman Bob Fejt Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative (letterhead) April 22, 2025 Dear Berwyn City Council, Today is Earth Day. It is the 55th annual Earth Day celebration! In honor of this special occasion, the Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative would like to offer the mayor a gift of a tree sapling. We hope that you can find space to plant it somewhere on city property. The Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative is also here tonight because city council is set to read a proclamation in honor of Arbor Day. We are happy to hear that the city is planning to plant a ceremonial tree near the Township building this Friday for Arbor Day and involve the students at Hiawatha. This is a good way to symbolize the city’s commitment to invest in our public spaces with the green infrastructure needed for a healthy community. But why stop at one tree? As the city proclamation notes, J. Sterling Morton was the founder of Arbor Day. There are many parkways and other spaces around Berwyn’s own Morton West High School that have room for new tree plantings. This spring would be the perfect time for the city to fill these areas with as many trees as possible. We know that the city has extra money for trees in its budget this year, because this April is the one-year anniversary of another happy event: On April 9, 2024, fifty-nine Berwyn electors attended the Berwyn Township Annual Town Meeting and voted unanimously for more tree planting, by allocating $75,000 from the Township budget to be given to the City of Berwyn. According to the “Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement for Tree Planting” between the Township and the City, which was ratified by city council on October 22, 2024, this money is meant to be used “for the planting of approximately 150 trees, over and above the number of trees already budgeted for in the City of Berwyn’s forestry budget.” Earlier this year, the Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative asked Public Works for details about how and when this money will be spent, but we did not receive a response. … Satellite map showing open tree planting spaces in Berwyn, Illinois Notes on Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative letterhead: In addition to the 105 locations identified in the map above BTCI has identified the following locations. We estimate that the locations listed below have space for 100 plus trees. * The intersection of Riverside Drive and Wesley Ave. has space for approx. 7 trees on public parkways outside businesses (gas station, bank, and parking lot). * The parking lot at 7125 W. 26th St. has room for additional trees around it. Room for 6-12 trees/ * Room for at least 22 trees on public parkways along Harlem Ave. between 26th St. and 31st St. (a business district) * There is an open sidewalk well at 6737 Roosevelt Rd. in front of what used to be Ginas. * 3601 Harlem, Zahav nursing home, room for three on the 36th Street side. * Corner of 35th and Harlem, at former Burger King parking lot, room for 2 on north side of 35th street. * 6908 34th street, First Baptist Church, room for 4 on 34th street, room for 2 on Home avenue. (Some of these are trees that were removed in the last few years.) * Hessler Park, room for 1 more tree on Kenilworth, 2 on 34th Street. * Northwest corner of 34th and Grove parking lot, space for 1-2 trees on west side of Grove. * Parking lot on northeast corner of 34th and Grove, room for 8 trees on the east side of Grove. * 3303 Grove, 3245 Grove, 3306 Grove, 3302 Grove, 3250 Grove. There are 7 empty tree wells. * 3202 Grove, 2 empty tree wells. One is blacktopped over. * 31st and Kenilworth, northeast corner, school parking lot has room for 3 more trees: one on Kenilworth, 2 on 31st street. * 3148 Clinton, Victory Outreach Church, room for 1 on 32nd Street and 3 on Kenilworth. (Also, one large tree on 32nd is dying and will need to be replaced.) * Southwest corner of 31st and Grove, empty lot with garden, room for 1 more tree on Grove. * Southeast corner of 31st and Euclid, Unity Lutheran Church, room for 3 more trees along 31st street. * 6609 Stanley, room for 2 on E…
April 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The annual blossoms of this lily magnolia in central Berwyn are always such a welcome site after a grey winter. The smells reach across and down the block.
April 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM