Article: Now playing in Lake Forest: Mr. T in chainsaw massacre

Call him Mr. T, not Mr. Tree.

The scowling, growling star of TV's "A Team" has angered some of his Lake Forest neighbors by cutting down many of the trees on his property.

City officials of the exclusive North Shore suburb - named a "Tree City USA" for seven consecutive years - have been told that Mr. T has a landscape plan. But neighbors call it the Lake Forest Chainsaw Massacre.

"It's maples, oaks, elms, everything," Betsy Kitzerow, whose home is next to the actor's 7-acre estate, complained Thursday. "He's changing the character of the neighborhood. It affects my property, as well."

With his mohawk and neck chains, Mr. T stands out in upper-crust Lake Forest. A Chicago Sun-Times ...

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