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At Balanced Environments, we love to learn. We are constantly attending seminars, certification classes and events. Learn below what we have been up to, where we have been and what we have learned in our travels.
Landscape Management Checklist January 2022
Have you approved your 2022 Landscape Management agreement? There is a known labor shortage going into the 2022 landscape season.
Ice Ice Baby! Keep your property safe with BE
Widespread freezing drizzle developed over Illinois and western and northern Indiana during the afternoon of Saturday, January 8 and continued into the evening, resulting in an impacting glaze of ice. At DuPage Airport, .24” of ice was reported. The combination of...
Landscapes of the Month: Keeping a Retirement Community Vibrant Despite Budget Cuts
The Covenant Living of Northbrook, located in a suburb of Chicago, is home to a 60-acre retirement community with 11 interconnected multi-tenant buildings, 18 duplexes and 3 quad-style residential units. Balanced Environments (BE) based in Old Mill Creek, Illinois,...
Balanced Environments earns only Chicagoland Gold Award of Excellence for NALP for 2021
Balanced Environments is proud to announce they earned the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) Award of Excellence—GOLD for the Commercial Landscape Management of Covenant Living, Northbrook.
Bruce Church Visits the Covenant Harbor Camp
Bruce Church, Owner-President of Balanced Environments visits the Covenant Harbor Camp, Lake Geneva project site.
Some Fun Snow Facts You May Not Know
Snow can also precipitate as graupel or sleet. Not to be confused with hail, graupel (or snow pellets) are opaque ice particles that form in the atmosphere as ice crystals fall through freezing cloud droplets.
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner – Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly, Vice President, Balanced Environments, was recently awarded the BOMA/Suburban Chicago’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Church Family Donates $100,000 to IL CECO
Oak Brook, IL – Four members of the Church family have donated $25,000 apiece to fund a $100,000 scholarship in the name of Denny R. Church. Denny was the longest serving ILCA President beginning in 1971 and ending in 1975. Immediately after his term, he was named ILCA Man of the Year in 1976.
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17950 W. Rt. 173 Old Mill Creek, IL 60083
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Our Landscape Installations provide creative solutions, based on sustainable ideals, to maximize the aesthetic appeal to individual properties. Our landscape designs respond to the particular client requests with innovative ideas. The installation process is driven by the most current practices, with trained personnel, in order to perform exceptionally in health and growth, aesthetic appeal, and value – all combined with lower maintenance demands.
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Balanced Environments services Chicagoland, Southern Wisconsin and Northwest Indiana.
24/7 Snow Command Dispatch (800) 883-8750
Old Mill Creek
Corporate Office
17950 W. Rt. 173
Old Mill Creek, IL 60083
Phone: (847) 395-7120
Fax: (847) 838-6750
Plainfield
12006 Spaulding School Rd., Unit 102A.
Plainfield, IL 60585
Phone: (815) 733-5342
Fax: (815) 733-6076
Lombard
Lombard Branch
951 N. Ridge Ave.
Lombard, IL 60148
Phone: (630) 916-8830
Fax: (630) 916-8055
Chicago
Chicago Branch
2420 W Washburne Ave.
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: (847) 395-7120
Fax: (847) 838-6750
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Branch
921 Silvernail Road
Pewaukee, WI 53072
Phone: 262.455.3882


















