21 funeral homes and crematories offering burial in Chicago, Illinois. Each listing names the services the home offers, the faiths it serves and the languages its staff speak, with its address, its phone and a link to its general price list where it posts one.
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21 funeral homes and crematories offering burial in Chicago
Chicago funeral and cremation service without a large building or chapels: arrangements are made at the family's home or another convenient place, and its one-day visitation and service packages are held at a church. Its packages include direct cremation by alkaline hydrolysis and donation to science.
Chicago funeral home and chapel that has offered funeral, memorial and cremation services since 1977, owned since 2019 by the owners of Coston Funeral Homes, a Pittsburgh firm founded in 1963. Cremations can be arranged online, and it also serves South Holland and Dolton.
Chicago funeral home and cremation provider in Irving Park, owned and run by its family since 2018 and independent of any national company. Its building has a chapel, a private visitation room, a gathering room and an urn selection room. Families can arrange online and track each step, and it handles the consulate paperwork, translations and flight to send remains to Mexico.
Chicago funeral home founded in 1994 with a chapel that seats 125, off-street parking, a lounge with light refreshments and a children's play room. Services are held at the funeral home or the family's church.
Independently owned Chicago funeral home with Greek Orthodox funeral care, supplying the icons, the Orthodox cross for the casket, the burial shroud and Greek prayer cards. Holds wakes and services at funeral chapels, churches and private venues across the Chicago area, and comes to the family when they cannot reach its office.
Funeral chapel on Chicago's East Side opened in 1989, one of three Elmwood Chapel homes with St. John and Cedar Lake, Indiana. Its cremations are performed at the family's own crematory in Cedar Lake under a Certified Crematory Operator, families may view the start of a cremation, and visitation and funeral can be held the same day.
Chicago funeral home founded in 1964 and still run by the founder's children, with a spacious chapel and viewing rooms added in a 1979 renovation. A family member greets each family, conducts the arrangement consultation and serves on the day of the service.
Chicago funeral chapel established in 1985, one of two Gatling's Chapel locations with a second chapel in South Holland. Has pre-need counselors and takes death calls 24 hours a day.
Chicago funeral home founded in 1919 and owned since 2003 by a family of licensed funeral directors and embalmers. Has a single-family chapel and transports the deceased to and from Mexico.
Queer-owned Chicago funeral and cremation firm led by two licensed funeral directors; a caller reaches a funeral director directly at any hour, with no answering service. It arranges flame or water cremation the family may witness, home funerals, celebrant-led ceremonies, repatriation abroad and private Lake Michigan scatterings.
Non-denominational cemetery on Chicago's Northwest Side, established in 1918 and laid out in the Prairie style. It has the Briarwood Court Garden Mausoleums with companion and side-by-side crypts, a chapel, a veterans section, a Muslim section, and cremation niches and gardens.
Chicago-area cemetery opened in 1911 as an African American cemetery at the proposal of a group of African American funeral directors, now about 112 acres in three sections. It has a veterans section with a memorial service each Memorial Day, a 9/11 memorial, a chapel, mausoleums and cremation niches.
Chicago funeral home opened in 1999 by the third generation of a funeral family that dates to 1923. Embalming and preparation are done on its own premises, it serves one family at a time, and its chapel is open to any denominational service, with a room for video tributes.
Chicago cemetery founded in 1886 by the Scandinavian Lutheran Society to serve the farming communities of the Dunning area. Has a chapel, the Briarwood Court Garden Mausoleums with companion and side-by-side crypts, family estate lots, cremation niches and gardens and a Muslim section; the office is open seven days a week.
Chicago cemetery incorporated in 1902 by men of Swedish descent to serve the South Side's Swedish families, with a 1921 chapel-mausoleum of stained glass, marble, crypts and niches. Indoor and outdoor mausoleum spaces are available.
Chicago cemetery chartered by the Illinois legislature in 1853, on 184 acres with four small lakes, where Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Douglas are buried. Its Tower of Memories mausoleum is built of Portuguese marble shipped through the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, and the grounds hold a Jewish section.
Nondenominational Chicago cemetery founded in 1859, 350 acres with an 1864 Gothic gatehouse, a Civil War section and sections dedicated to the Jewish and Muslim faiths. The May Chapel overlooking the lake seats 120 and the Hennig Chapel in the mausoleum about 65; staff speak Spanish, Romanian, Ukrainian and Russian.
Chicago funeral home founded on July 29, 2015 by a funeral director and embalmer licensed since 1997, run as a Godly establishment that strives to be Christ-like. Its staff includes a chapel musician, and families may bring pictures and memorabilia for display during the wake and funeral.
Chicago funeral home of a family firm dating to 1912 and now in its fourth generation, with three chapels and a lounge where guests can have food and drinks before or after a service. The firm has its own crematory and serves Greek Orthodox families together with Adinamis Funeral Directors.
Chicago funeral home founded in 1913 and now in its fourth generation, in a single-floor building with no stairs, a handicapped-accessible washroom and a 100-year-old glass gallery. Services can be livestreamed on Zoom or Facebook Live, outside catering is accepted, and cremation can end in a disposition on Lake Michigan.
