158 funeral homes and crematories offering burial in Illinois, listed by city and county. 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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158 funeral homes and crematories offering burial in Illinois
Chicago funeral home founded in the Mayfair neighborhood during the Depression and in its present building since 1955. Has a chapel seating up to one hundred, a viewing room and a coffee lounge, with adjacent parking, an elevator and disability access; staff are available 24 hours a day.
Fourth-generation family-owned Chicago Ridge funeral home that has served communities across the Chicago area since 1897.
Claremont memorial park cemetery founded in the mid-1950s, with flush bronze markers, the Hope Mausoleum, a columbarium and a cremation garden. Committal services are held indoors in the Hope Chapel, which seats about 150; the cemetery runs its own flower shop, sells burial vaults to the public and guides families holding a cremation committal without a funeral director.
Crystal Lake funeral home opened in 2008, with its own crematory on site. Its three chapels hold large visitations or small gatherings, and its lounges have kitchen facilities.
Danville funeral home opened in 1984 as one of Illinois’ first combined funeral home and cemetery businesses, across from Sunset Memorial Park, where its crematory stands. The 14,000-square-foot building, renovated in 2022, has rooms for visitations and services, a private family lounge and a café that hosts a program for children.
Darien funeral home in business since 1955 and at this site since 1983, owned and run by the founders' son and granddaughter. It owns Passages Cremation Center, a private crematory 15 minutes away with a witnessing room where families can be present for the start of the cremation, and has a spacious chapel and a large dining and reception area.
Decatur funeral home with a 200-seat chapel and its own crematory, the only one in Macon County with a private gathering room, where family may be present as a cremation begins. It provides funeral and cemetery arrangements with Graceland and Fairlawn cemeteries and merged with Moran & Goebel in 2011.
Decatur cemetery founded in 1936, with a tower built to amplify an organ and chimes and a Lutheran section. Sells grave spaces, helps families choose and design markers, and sends a map to help find a grave.
Des Plaines funeral directors specializing in Greek Orthodox funeral traditions, tracing to a Chicago funeral home founded in 1899. Holds services in partnering funeral homes, chapels and churches across the Chicago area, and makes arrangements at its Des Plaines office or in the family's home.
Des Plaines funeral home founded in 1917, in a building opened in 2003 with several chapels, a large reception area with catering, and a children's play area with a sitter on request. Arrangements can be completed by phone or email without a visit.
Des Plaines cemetery of 168 acres with two lakes, serving Chicago-area families since 1920. Its Swan Lake Mausoleum holds a circular chapel seating 200, an ornate Greek Chapel serves the Greek Orthodox faith, and the grounds keep a reserved military section; team members speak Greek and Korean.
Des Plaines funeral home established in 1995 and opened in 1998, with international transportation of the deceased as its specialty. One of three locations with Matz Mt. Prospect Funeral Chapel and Hankook Funeral Service in Northbrook, and available 24 hours.
Dixon funeral home tracing its history to a funeral home opened in 1904, veteran owned and operated: its owner served in the U.S. Air Force and has been Lee County coroner since 2008.
Dolton cemetery established in 1860, sometimes called Old Dolton Cemetery, with a Little Arlington veterans section around a Grand Army of the Republic statue erected in 1907 and two Civil War cannons at its entrance. It also holds a Remembrance Monument to the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
East Peoria funeral home serving the greater Peoria area since 1965, a member of the Dignity Memorial network. Has a large-capacity chapel and hosts catered events, and completes funeral arrangements by phone or email with electronic signature.
Elburn funeral home serving families for four generations, in a former family residence with a children's center, kitchen and family room on its lower level. A child bereavement specialist and a full-time therapist are on staff, and the Conley family founded Conley Outreach, a nonprofit grief counseling service, in 1983.
Elgin funeral home in an 1880s Chateauesque and Romanesque mansion, a funeral home since 1938, that holds one service at a time for gatherings of a handful to over 200. Its funeral director is also an attorney who assists with estate matters such as probate and wills.
Elgin funeral home founded downtown in 1921 as Marsh & Conn Funeral Home and carried on by its current owners since 2013. Families may witness the cremation, and the home ships remains abroad, including to Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala. It runs Operation LOVE, which holds community funerals for unclaimed veterans.
Elmhurst funeral home opened in 1960 by a family that has run funeral homes since 1935, with sister homes in Chicago and Itasca. Services are streamed online for those who cannot attend, and its directors arrange donation of a body to science through the Anatomical Gift Association.
Elmhurst cemetery founded in 1925 on about 90 acres, with a lake, a chapel, a veterans section with a Wall of Honor and a Dutch smock windmill, the oldest standing windmill in Illinois. Designs and builds personal mausoleums for above-ground entombment.
