26 funeral homes and crematories offering green 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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26 funeral homes and crematories offering green burial in Illinois
Anna funeral home, one of nine Crain funeral homes in southern Illinois and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, providing funerals since 1932. The Crain homes run their own crematory and three memorial parks; Pleasant Grove Memorial Park keeps a green burial garden and Jewish and Muslim gardens.
Arlington Heights funeral home in a red brick building with four chapels, two reception lounges, and caskets, vaults, urns and clothing to choose from on site. Named Glueckert Funeral Home in 1976 and part of Dignity Memorial since 2024, it offers attended and water cremation and works with two Chicago-area cemeteries that provide natural burials.
Barrington funeral home, formerly Stirlen-Pieper, serving the Barrington area since 1861 and under its present owners since 1996. Its two chapels hold large visitations or small gatherings, and cremations are performed at the group's own crematories in Crystal Lake and Lake Zurich.
Bolingbrook funeral home founded in 2009, whose green burials place the body in a biodegradable shroud or casket without embalming and whose flameless cremation uses water and heat in place of flame. Serves families throughout the Chicagoland area.
Brookfield funeral home run by the Hitzeman family for five generations since its founding in Chicago in 1904; its Brookfield building opened in 1963 and was renovated in 2009 with a new chapel and a full selection room. Its chapels sit on one ADA-compliant floor with parking for 100 cars in procession, and it guides families planning a green burial.
Buffalo Grove chapel of an independent Jewish funeral firm founded in 1997, with two chapels seating 250 and 80, each with a private family room, and a video feed that screens a service from one chapel to the other and to the lobby. Families may hold shiva at the chapel, and the firm keeps a database of unused graves for sale at Chicagoland cemeteries.
Cary cemetery within the Hickory Grove Highlands nature preserve, with a waterfall, tree-lined hills and abundant wildlife, serving families since 1965. It has mausoleum spaces and a walk-in family estate mausoleum, and the new Whispering Pines Mausoleum is coming.
Champaign chapel of Sunset Funeral Home & Cremation Center, opened in 2012, with over 12,000 square feet, a main chapel, a smaller room for small viewings and a café that also hosts a children's program on funerals. Slideshows and memorial videos play on its audio and visual system; cremations are performed at Sunset's own crematory in Danville, which serves only Sunset families.
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.
Chicago funeral home certified by the Green Burial Council, with three chapels seating 135, 75 and 20, each with a monitor and sound system, a coffee lounge and valet parking. Arranges repatriation abroad, has death doulas families can contact, and takes pre-arrangements online.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lake Villa funeral home established in 1895, in the village since 1959 and certified by the Green Burial Council. Services can be streamed live, and arrangements can be made online.
Lake Zurich funeral home opened in 2017, with its own crematory on site. Its three chapels hold services large or small, and its two lounges have kitchen facilities.
Nashville funeral home in an 1880s residence, converted to a funeral home in 1942 and one of only a dozen buildings registered as a county historic landmark. Renovated in 2000 with off-street parking, accessibility and a family lounge. It arranges body donation to science through its affiliations with three universities, MedCure and Science Care.
