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.

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Berwyn funeral home of a family in funeral service since 1885, when it began in a storefront in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood; the Berwyn building was completed in 1960. It keeps caskets and urns on the premises and has a chapel seating up to 180, a children's room and a kitchenette.

Berwyn funeral home founded in 1974 by a family whose funeral business began in Chicago's Pilsen area in 1909. Has three chapels, private parking, a casket selection room and facilities for the handicapped.

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Non-denominational Blue Island cemetery founded in the early 1920s as a park-like burial ground around a lake with a fountain at its center. It has private mausoleums, walled bench estates, cremation niches and gardens, a Jewish section and a Veterans Memorial, and is part of the Dignity Memorial network.

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Blue Island funeral home run by six generations of the Krueger family since 1858. Its 1927 building, a local historical landmark, has two large chapels and lounges on one level with no steps from the parking lot, plus a second lounge or dining room for families.

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Bridgeview funeral home with its own cremation center, Care Cremation Center, in Romeoville.