Overview
- The Norway spruce stands about 67 to 68 feet tall, with a veteran hauler calling it the largest Chicago has displayed by overall size.
- City crews and Brightview Landscaping removed the roughly 12,000‑pound tree Monday morning using a crane and loaded it onto a flatbed truck.
- Transport to Millennium Park is scheduled for Tuesday with the tree to be raised Wednesday and decorated ahead of the Nov. 21 lighting.
- DCASE selected the Mason family’s front‑yard spruce as Chicago’s 112th official Christmas tree after a fall call for large Norway spruces or firs within 50 miles.
- The family plans to give collected pinecones to a relative’s Indiana tree farm for propagation, and the city will mulch the display tree after January.