The City of Collinsville received a Illinois Community Canopy Planting Grant from Trees Forever to plant trees in our Uptown Area! This grant focuses on planting projects that diversity tree canopies in public areas such as streets, trails, schools, parks etc. This grant will helped fund the planting of over 60 trees in Uptown in Fall 2025!

This project furthers the City's Urban Forestry Management Plan by increasing our tree canopy and encouraging species diversification to bolster our urban forestry resilience. A healthy tree canopy provides a myriad of benefits including providing shade in our hot summers, improving air quality, stormwater management, increasing property values and improvements to mental and physical health. 

You can see all trees to be planted in the City's interactive Public Tree Inventory or with the Uptown Canopy Planting Map 2025 PDF. Trees selected with a note "Nov 8 2025" are new trees  planted as part of this grant. 

A huge thank you to all volunteers who helped make this tree planting in Uptown possible!