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
Evergreen Park cemetery founded in 1910 on 110 acres, with community mausoleums whose indoor chapel hosts committal services, private family estates, cremation niches and a Field of Honor veterans section. Its Gatekeepers Garden, created in 2012, honors seven African-American religious and civic leaders of Chicago.
Fairview Heights cemetery opened in 1952 on 80 acres with three lakes, two mausoleums, cremation gardens, a veterans section, a Masonic garden and a section for those of the Muslim faith. Lake View Funeral Home, built on its grounds in 1995, has two chapels and an on-site crematorium.
Flora funeral home and cremation service whose history begins with Branson Funeral Home, opened in 1929. It keeps a media room with a lending library of grief and funeral-planning books and videos, and hands out Five Wishes booklets.
Forest Park funeral home and 100-acre cemetery, home to Showmen's Rest, a section reserved mostly for circus performers. The funeral home has three chapels, each with a hospitality room and kitchen for a catered reception, and a private crematory on the property; the cemetery's first burial was in 1912.
Forsyth cremation center serving 55 central Illinois counties since 2021, with its own crematory and a stainless-steel ID tag that stays with each person through cremation. It also arranges direct burial, a licensed funeral director staying at the graveside until the burial is complete, and takes calls around the clock.
Fox Lake funeral home trading as Hamsher Funerals & Cremations, founded in 1953 as KK Hamsher Funeral Home, with Illinois Natural Burial as its natural burial brand. It holds services at partner locations in McHenry and Lake Villa or at a family's place of worship, and offers embalming with Green Burial Council-approved products.
Freeport memorial park cemetery founded in 1951 on 80 acres, with grave markers set flush with the lawns, eleven gardens including Catholic and Masonic gardens, three mausoleums and niches for more than 700 urns. Its Chapel of Peace, built in 1993, seats 60 for committal services in any weather.
Galena funeral home, family owned and serving the tri-states since 1896, when it opened as a furniture and undertaking business. Moved into its present building in 2005.
Georgetown chapel of Sunset Funeral Home & Cremation Center, the former Houghton-Leasure Funeral Home, which Sunset acquired in 1994. An 8,000-square-foot building with a fireplace and a café that also hosts a children's program on funerals. Cremations are performed at Sunset's own crematory in Danville, which serves only Sunset families.
Glenwood cemetery reputed to be the first racially integrated cemetery in the Chicago region, where African Americans could bury their dead under their own names. A cemetery only, with burial, mausoleum and inurnment and no cremation or funeral director services; its sister locations are Mt. Glenwood West in Willow Springs and Evergreen Hills in Steger.
Gurnee funeral home on the grounds of a burial ground established in 1846, with arrangement offices, a chapel, a customer lounge and audio and video systems. The grounds hold a chapel mausoleum built in 2003.
Harvard funeral home with its own crematory, in its present building since 1938 and run as Saunders & McFarlin since 1985. Pre-planning can be arranged at the funeral home or at the family's home, and it serves the Harvard community and its rural area.
Herrin funeral home formed in 1999 and opened in 2000, with a large chapel seating up to 160, a smaller chapel seating up to 80, a kitchen area, and a fully accessible building with ample parking.
Hillside funeral home established in January 2012, with four individual and private chapels for funerals, viewings and memorial services. Serves Westchester, Elmhurst, LaGrange, Oak Brook and downtown Chicago.
Hoffman Estates funeral home, family owned and serving families since 1938, led by second- and third-generation funeral directors. Has its own cemetery memorial and monument department and a spacious foyer with an adjoining café; arrangements can be made at the funeral home or in the family's home.
Family-owned Jerseyville funeral home staffed solely by the owning family, serving Jersey County for over 25 years. Its building, opened in 2004, has larger viewing chapels and a chapel with multimedia equipment; the home makes slideshow tributes and memory folders and can arrange catering, guest travel and notary service.
Joliet funeral home with its own crematory, where families may witness the cremation; the family has served the area for five generations since 1854. Its chapel, built in 1991, is all on one level with large chapel areas, and the firm has a second chapel in Morris and serves Will, Grundy and Kendall counties.
Joliet cemetery of 22 acres with bronze lamps, a butterfly garden, a swan pond and a restored bell tower, serving families since 1929. It has Greek Orthodox and Serbian Orthodox burial sections and offers natural burial.
Small, private Kankakee funeral home with a second location in Momence, serving Kankakee, Bourbonnais and Bradley. Its new facility has a chapel and holds visitations, funerals and memorial services.
LaHarpe funeral home where the firm began in 1927, in its present building since the 1940s and run by the founding family's fourth generation, with further chapels in Dallas City and Stronghurst serving Hancock and Henderson counties. Also sells cemetery monuments and markers.
