Jody Mason didn’t need to be the daughter of an Indiana tree farmer to know the massive spruce in her front yard would make for a great Christmas tree, because all who visited would tell her so.

“Every time someone comes to the house, they always comment, ‘this would be a nice City of Chicago Christmas tree,’” said Mason, of Glenview.

The Greek chorus of friends and neighbors have turned out to be seers: the 68-foot Norway spruce was removed by landscapers Monday morning in preparation for transport to Millennium Park, where it will be anointed Chicago’s 112th official Christmas tree.

“It’s a very fitful send-off, and we’re very excited for it,” Jody said.

The spruce, planted as a 1-foot sapling sometime in the 1980s, already towered over the Masons’ one-story home when they moved to G

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