Look, you've probably dealt with landscapers before. The kind who show up when they feel like it, whose quote magically grows by the time the invoice hits, who leave a couple cigarette butts in the lawn on their way out. We're not those guys. O'Brien Brothers Landscape was started by Emmet O'Brien — a Chicago kid who started cutting lawns at nine and never stopped — and we run the company the way a small Chicago business should: answer the phone, show up when you said you would, do the work, stand behind it. We're not the cheapest crew in town, and we're not trying to be. We're the one you call once and don't have to think about again.

"Honestly, the bar isn't that high. Show up on time, do what you said you'd do, clean up before you leave. A lot of guys can't manage all three. That's really the whole job." — Emmet O'Brien

Our work covers the full Chicago calendar — weekly lawn maintenance, sod, mulch, irrigation when summer dries everything out, hardscapes and full design builds when you're finally ready to do the patio right, and snow plowing once the city reminds you what February feels like. Most of what we do comes from neighbors talking to neighbors, which is the only kind of marketing that's ever really worked for us. If you want to know what we're like, ask around your block — chances are we've already been there.

"Working in Chicago is its own thing. The frost line, the salt, clay soil harder than the patio you're trying to lay. You learn the city or you don't last." — Emmet O'Brien