Geneva's parkway trees provide year-round beauty and help ensure a more resilient future by providing environmental, health, and mental wellness benefits.

To ensure the City's tree canopy remains vibrant for future generations, we are asking the community to make the pledge to support efforts for planting 2,025 parkway trees by 2025.

How can you help? Start by taking the pledge. By signing this pledge you commit to checking into the City's parkway tree replacement program before Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Through the replacement program, Geneva residents pay $150, and the City pays the remainder of the cost to purchase and plant a new tree.

At this time, there are more than 2,000 empty spots for parkway trees in the community. Feel free to use our online map as a reference to check if you have room to add a parkway tree near your home.

Help Geneva stay green and make the pledge today.

During an emergency, people should call 911 for police and firefighter assistance.

But do you know the best way to report power outages that take place after-hours, on weekends or on holidays?

The City's online request tracker system and social media accounts may seem like convenient options, but these channels are not monitored 24 hours a day.

If an outage occurs outside normal business hours, residents should call the Geneva Police Department's non-emergency number at 630-232-4736, and police will dispatch the appropriate on-call Public Works personnel.

The City of Geneva Community 708 Mental Health Board is accepting grant requests for November.

501(c)(3) exempt organizations that provide services to Geneva residents (please see map for the City's corporate boundary limits for reference) with intellectual or developmental disabilities, mental illness, and substance abuse could be eligible to receive funding.

Applications must be completed by Friday, Oct. 28 in order to be eligible for funding consideration.

Geneva’s financial reporting and transparency efforts have culminated with another trifecta of national awards.

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada honored the City’s accomplishments, which represent the highest form of achievement in the field of governmental accounting and financial reporting. The association is a non-profit organization serving more than 20,000 government finance professionals.

Geneva Commons opened on Sept. 5, 2002 and recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Mayor Kevin Burns proclaimed “Geneva Commons Weekend” and urged all citizens to extend their appreciation to Geneva Commons for their investment and commitment to our community.

Geneva Commons is a premier shopping and dining destination featuring 60 national brand and specialty shops, beauty and health services, and a variety of dining options in an open-air mall setting located at Randall and Bricher roads.

The Geneva Commons development was possible due to a public-private partnership. In 2001, the Geneva City Council approved an economic development incentive agreement featuring a sales tax-sharing program designed to offset development costs and secure new tenants.

Throughout the years, the Commons has worked to meet the needs of retailers and consumers. It withstood the financial crisis of 2008-09 and adjusted to accommodate the changing shopping landscape. In 2018, the Commons transformed an underutilized common area into a park-like space to host various special events including movie nights, fitness seminars and concerts in an outdoor setting.

Geneva Commons works to provide access to favorite brands while fueling creativity and success of small businesses. Recently, the Commons assisted Wet Nose, an original tenant, with relocation and expansion goals. It welcomed finalists from the Uncommon Collective Pop-Up Contest, a program that awarded a free location during the summer months and a cash prize for the design and store build-out. Four Pop-Up Shop winners have now become permanent tenants. Coming in 2023, Hacienda Real restaurant will be serving up the flavors of Mexico, and other new stores and dining ventures are also in the works.

Whenever possible, please shop and dine locally. Your purchases not only support our business community, but local sales tax helps the City provide police/fire protection, maintain our streets and fund other critical municipal services. With sales tax being one of the City’s top revenue sources, you can have a direct impact on making Geneva a wonderful place to live, work and visit.

The Geneva Police Department would like to highlight the following Halloween safety measures:

We hope that everyone has a safe and enjoyable Halloween. If you should have any questions please contact the Geneva Police Department at 630-232-4736.

One of the most common concerns expressed to the Police Department is speeding.

I thought it was a good time to provide some important statistics. Speeding is involved in 1/3 of all motor vehicle fatalities nationwide. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics for 2021 show traffic deaths grew by 10.5% to 42,915. This is the highest number since 2005 and the highest annual percentage increase in all of the recorded history of this data!

Speeding is more than just breaking the law. It causes the following:

Please join us in assuring that we provide the safest roadways possible for our residents and those who work in and visit our fantastic community. By simply following the posted speed limits, we will have a greater likelihood of reducing traffic crashes within Geneva and reducing the severity of those crashes that occur.

Thank you and please enjoy the fall season.

The City continues to enhance electric service reliability by replacing underground utility cable in four areas of Geneva.

Utility Dynamics, the City contractor, started work on South Street (near Gary & Shelia lanes) Aug. 29, and Hill Road (near Whitfield Drive) and the Burgess Road areas in September.

The Fabyan Parkway project is scheduled to take place later this fall.

Crews will be installing conduit through utility easements and public right-of-way for the next several months. Electrical transformers, pedestals and street lights also will be replaced. This winter, the contractor will energize and connect homes to the new equipment. Scheduled power outages will be required as part of the project.

Final landscape restoration will begin in spring 2023, weather permitting.