The Naperville City Council approved a $292, 625 contract with Kinnucan Tree Experts and Landscape company for ash borer treatment.  As reported in the Naperville Sun-Times, 1,400 ash trees were killed by the emerald ash borer in the city.

Grayslake officials approved $17,000 in spending to help prevent emerald ash borer  disease in the area.   Kinnucan Tree Experts and Landscape applied a treatment that may make ash trees in the area immune to the disease caused by the beetles as described in The News Sun article. Rhett Taylor said, “for the relatively small investment, it’s worth trying to save over 1,800 of our ash trees that are on public parkways throughout the village.”

The Village of Schaumburg awarded Kinnucan Tree Experts and Landscaping in Lake Bluff a $390,460 contract to deal with the Emerald Ash Borer epidemic plaguing the tress in the area as reported in the Daily Hearld.  Kinnucan will be chemically treating 524 high value trees and 6,316 smaller trees.