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Cremation Services in Illinois

320 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation 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.

All States3836Alabama123Alaska19Arizona53Arkansas178California459Colorado131Connecticut132Delaware42District of Columbia11Florida499Georgia247Hawaii18Idaho50Illinois320Indiana272Iowa183Kansas129Kentucky129Nevada63New Jersey222New York556
All of Illinois320Adams County1Bond County1Brown County1Bureau County2Calhoun County1Carroll County1Champaign County6Christian County1Clay County1Clinton County1Coles County2Cook County83Crawford County2DuPage County15Effingham2Franklin County3Fulton County2Grundy County3Hancock County1Hardin County1Henderson County1Henry County2Jefferson County1Jersey County1Jo Daviess County3Johnson County1Kane County8Kankakee3Kendall County7Knox County2Lake County12LaSalle County3Lee County1Livingston County1Logan County1Macon County6Macoupin County1Madison County10Marion County3Mason County2McHenry County11McLean County4Menard County1Mercer County1Monroe County2Montgomery County1Moultrie County1Ogle County1Peoria4Perry County1Pulaski County2Randolph County1Rock Island11Saline County1Sangamon County6St. Clair County12Stephenson County2Tazewell County6Union County1Vermilion County4Wabash County1Warren County1Washington County2Whiteside County2Will County23Williamson County2Winnebago County13Woodford County4
All servicesBurial158Cremation320Green burial26Pre-need arrangements196Veterans services70Out-of-state and international transport30Human composting1Water cremation (aquamation)16Home funeral support1
Any faithJewish12Catholic6Orthodox Christian8Muslim2Hindu4
Any languageSpanish36Vietnamese1Korean1Russian4Polish9

Licence rows come from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Funeral Directors and Embalmers Unit; what a home offers comes from its own site. SimplyTrust lists no prices, no reviews and no rankings, and does not endorse any home. Contact a home directly for its general price list, which the Funeral Rule requires it to provide.

320 funeral homes and crematories offering cremation in Illinois

Frank & Bright Funeral Home and Cremation Services

500 North Main Street, Flora, IL 62839

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.

BurialCremationVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-618-662-2141

Woodlawn Crematory

7750 West Cermak Road, Forest Park, IL 60130

Private crematory of Woodlawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park in Forest Park, opened on the cemetery property in 2006. Cremated remains may be buried at Woodlawn Memorial Park.

CrematoryCremation

1-708-442-5887

Woodlawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park

7750 West Cermak Road, Forest Park, IL 60130

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.

CremationBurial

1-708-442-8500

Central Cremation Center

110 W. Weaver Rd, Forsyth, IL 62535

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.

BurialCremationVeterans services

1-217-859-8100

Central Cremation Center

110 West Weaver Road, Forsyth, IL 62535

Forsyth crematory of Central Cremation Center, which has served 55 central Illinois counties since 2021 and offers direct cremation to families. Arrangements are made with a licensed crematory operator, and a stainless-steel ID tag stays with each person from start to finish.

CrematoryCremation

1-217-859-8100

Illinois Natural Burial

74 E. Grand Avenue, Suite 101, Fox Lake, IL 60020

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.

BurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangements

1-847-587-2100

Heartland Memorial Center, Inc.

65 Old Frankfort Way, Frankfort, IL 60423

Frankfort funeral home whose families are served at two Kurtz Memorial Chapel locations, in Frankfort and New Lenox, on one shared line. Funerals can be planned ahead at a seminar or in a one-on-one meeting.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-708-444-2266

Monarch Crematorium/Dawson Crematory

9568 Belmont Avenue, Franklin Park, IL 60131

Franklin Park crematory of Sax-Tiedemann Funeral Home, added on site in 1998 and run as Monarch Cremation Society, so a loved one is not transferred from one facility to another before the remains are returned to the family. The home, founded in 1924, has been kept by one family for four generations.

CrematoryCremation

1-847-678-1950

Sax-Tiedemann Funeral Home DBA Monarch Cremation Society

9568 Belmont Avenue, Franklin Park, IL 60131

Franklin Park funeral home with an on-site crematory added in 1998, run by the fourth generation of the family that founded it in 1924. Also does business as Monarch Cremation Society, performs Hindu cremations following the Pooja service rites, and has refreshment areas beside its chapels.

Hindu funeralsCremation

1-847-678-1950

Walker Mortuary & Cremation

321 W. Main St., Freeport, IL 61032

Freeport funeral home established in 1923 in the first building in Stephenson County used for funerals. Has had its own crematory since 2007, where families may witness the cremation from a private viewing room, and runs a second home, Daughenbaugh Funeral Home in Dakota, and a monument company.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-815-232-2136

Furlong Funeral Chapel

100 Caroldon Court, Galena, IL 61036

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.

BurialCremationVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-815-777-9122

Thomas Crematory

1849 N. Seminary St., Galesburg, IL 61401

Galesburg crematory of Watson-Thomas Funeral Home and Crematory, housed in the Thomas Legacy Center, a building added on the funeral home grounds in 2014 that also holds a community room seating 100 for after-funeral dinners. The crematory has a family witness room.

CrematoryCremation

1-309-342-1913

Watson Thomas Funeral Home

1849 North Seminary Street, Galesburg, IL 61401

Galesburg funeral home with its own crematory and a family witness room. The Thomas Legacy Center, a separate building on its grounds, seats 100 for after-funeral dinners and hosts grief classes. Its present building dates from 1988, and a second home serves Oquawka.

Cremation

1-309-342-1913

Transitions Crematory, Ltd.

203 Liberty St. PO Box 322, Gardner, IL 60424

Gardner crematory of Reeves & Baskerville Funeral Homes, opened in 2023 inside the group's Gardner funeral home and serving all of its funeral homes in Coal City, Gardner, Morris and Wilmington, so cremations stay in the group's own establishments.

CrematoryCremation

1-815-237-2526

Vandemore Funeral Home

580 East Ogden Avenue, Geneseo, IL 61254

Family-owned Geneseo funeral home, one of two chapels of a firm founded in Atkinson in 1936 that has its own crematory. The Geneseo chapel has livestreaming, a children's room, and a kitchenette with an adjoining patio for families during services.

Cremation

1-309-944-1415

Houghton-Leasure Funeral Home

200 East West Street, Georgetown, IL 61846

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.

BurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangements

1-217-662-6700

Elias, Kallal & Schaaf Funeral Homes, Crematory & Cemeteries, Ltd.

1313 W. Delmar Avenue, Godfrey, IL 62035

Godfrey funeral home with the firm's own crematory, opened in 1987 as the first crematory in the Metro East. Its two chapels divide with retractable walls for two visitations at once, beside a lounge and a casket room; the firm also owns Valhalla Memorial Park in Godfrey and Rose Lawn Memory Garden in Bethalto.

Cremation

1-618-466-3573

Godfrey Crematory

1313 West Delmar Avenue, Godfrey, IL 62035

Crematory of Elias, Kallal & Schaaf Funeral Homes, housed in the firm's Godfrey funeral home. It opened with the building in 1987 as the first crematory in the Metro East, so a loved one stays in the funeral home's own care.

CrematoryCremation

1-618-466-3573

Wojstrom Funeral Home & Crematory

3939 Lake Drive, Granite City, IL 62040

Funeral home with its own crematory on the premises, the only funeral home in the Granite City area with one, so the deceased never leaves its care. Its owners began serving families in 2007 after remodeling the former Werner Chapel.

Cremation

1-618-931-3939

Assalley Funeral Homes

118 E. College Avenue, Greenville, IL 62049

Greenville funeral home in a recently remodeled downtown building nearly 200 years old, continuing a lineage of nearly a century that began as the Dewey Funeral Home. One of four Assalley Funeral Homes, it serves Pocahontas, Mulberry Grove, Smithboro, Donnellson, Pierron, Panama and Keyesport in Bond County, and Carlyle in Clinton County. Every service includes live streaming of the ceremonies.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-618-664-2341
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