Our offices have moved. Our new address is 801 N. Country Fair Drive, Suite D, Champaign, IL 61821. They weren't planted by anyone famous. They weren't unusual species and didn't have fancy unusual names. If you drive by our old office on the corner of Springfield and Mattis, you are in for a surprise.
Clear cutting seems to be a popular technique lately.
They are all gone. The beautiful old Scotch pine that had managed not to succumb to pine wood nematode, that has killed many of its relatives in this area, is gone. This Scotch pine still had its lower limbs even though the lawn maintenance guy probably cussed at them each time he mowed. He could have cut them off for convenience, but he let the tree maintain its graceful natural shape. He worked around them.