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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

Donnell-Wiegand Funeral Home

203 West Oak Street, Greenville, IL 62246

Greenville funeral home in an 1893 mansion, its home since 1952, with a ground-level chapel added in 1978, a private family room and private family parking in a heated garage. Traces its roots to an 1893 undertaking business, serves Bond County families and keeps a second location in Mulberry Grove.

Cremation

1-618-664-0431

Gurnee Funeral Home

4190 Old Grand Avenue, Gurnee, IL 60031

Gurnee funeral home in an 1897 colonial house, family owned and operated since 1971 by a family who live on the premises. Has intimate sitting areas instead of one large chapel, a lower-level lounge for refreshments, a viewing for identification before cremation, and a funeral ark that carries cremated remains to the church and cemetery.

CremationVeterans services

1-847-244-1155

Marsh Funeral Home

305 North Cemetery Road, Gurnee, IL 60031

Gurnee funeral home on 2.5 green acres that has served Lake County since 1938, with a large chapel with flexible seating, a coffee lounge and a piano or organ. Its team is fluent in Spanish and English, and arrangements can be completed by phone or email.

Spanish spokenCremation

1-847-336-0127

Hanks-Gress Funeral Homes

207 S. County Rd., Hardin, IL 62047

Hardin funeral home with roots in CC Hanks Funeral Home, founded in Pearl in 1919; it was Hanks-Gress from 1987 and has been one of the Gress, Kallal and Schaaf Funeral Homes since 2016, with a sister home in Brussels. It has a medium-size chapel, a lounge and a casket room, and cremations are done at the firm's own crematory in Godfrey.

Cremation

1-618-576-2718

Stricklin Funeral Home

503 E. Sloan Street, Harrisburg, IL 62946

Harrisburg funeral home in a building built for use as a funeral home, with a chapel that seats 160 on one level, no ramps or steps and full accessibility. Cremation is contracted with a local provider, and calls are answered by a funeral professional at any hour, never an answering service.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-618-252-1711

Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home

107 West Sumner Street, Harvard, IL 60033

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.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-815-943-5400

Hurley Funeral Home

217 North Plum Street, Havana, IL 62644

Havana funeral home established in 1857, the first of six Hurley homes, with its own crematory added in 2013. The firm's other homes are in Petersburg, Mason City, Manito, Chandlerville and Greenview.

Cremation

1-309-543-2244

Johnson-Hughes Funeral Home Herrin

201 S. 13th St., Herrin, IL 62948

Herrin funeral home with a chapel, run together with the Maxton-Rosado chapels in Du Quoin and Centralia by owners who took over to carry on where the former owners left off.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-618-942-3102

Meredith-Waddell Funeral Home

2704 South Park Avenue, Herrin, IL 62948

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.

BurialCremation

1-618-988-8880

Hough-Dean Funeral Homes

1119 School Street, Hillsboro, IL 62049

Hillsboro funeral home, one of three Hough-Dean locations with Raymond and Coffeen, run by a family that has served the area for more than 125 years. Services can be held at a family's church or any of its locations, and it also provides monuments.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-217-532-6080

Hursen Funeral Home

4001 W. Roosevelt Road, Hillside, IL 60162

Hillside funeral home and crematory that has served the Chicago area continuously since 1882. It can supply granite and bronze cemetery memorials.

Cremation

1-708-547-8200

Russo's Hillside Chapels

4500 Roosevelt Road, Hillside, IL 60162

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.

BurialCremation

1-708-449-5300

Morizzo Funeral Home & Cremation Services

2550 Hassell Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169

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.

CremationBurialVeterans services

1-847-752-6444

Richard J Modell Funeral Home & Cremation Services

12641 West 143rd Street, Homer Glen, IL 60441

Homer Glen funeral home owned and run by the third generation of the family that has served families since 1955, with services offered in Polish by a Polish funeral director. Its chapels and lounge areas have been expanded.

Polish spokenCremation

1-708-301-3595

Forest Crematory

17859 Bretz Drive, Homewood, IL 60430

Homewood cremation facility of the Cremation Society of Illinois, which has had a presence in Homewood since 2012. It has a crematory where families can witness the cremation, a private viewing area and two arrangement rooms; the society also offers a Lake Michigan scattering service.

CrematoryCremationPre-need arrangements

1-708-206-2000

DeFiore Funeral and Cremation Service, Inc.

10763 Dundee Road, Huntley, IL 60142

Huntley funeral home with its own crematory on site, in a building opened in May 2010 with two chapels, a reception area, a children's room and a kitchenette. It holds quarterly grief seminars, a Valentine's Day luncheon for those who have lost a spouse and a December holiday memorial service, and sells monuments and markers.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-847-515-8772

Crawford Funeral Home

1308 State Highway 109, Jerseyville, IL 62052

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.

BurialCremation

1-618-498-9844

Blackburn-Giegerich-Sonntag Funeral Home

1500 Black Road, Joliet, IL 60435

Joliet funeral and cremation provider that has served its community since 1929, with staff available 24 hours a day.

Cremation

1-815-744-4444

Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home

2320 Black Road, Joliet, IL 60435

Joliet funeral home, family owned and operated since 1926, with its own crematory on site and a private room where families can witness the cremation. The building has a formal chapel, and each wing has a visitation chapel with its own private lounge.

Cremation

1-815-744-0022

Fred C. Dames Funeral Home

3200 Black at Essington Roads, Joliet, IL 60431

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.

BurialCremationOut-of-state and international transportPre-need arrangements

1-815-741-5500
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