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Funeral Homes in Chicago, Illinois

75 funeral homes and crematories in Chicago, Illinois. 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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All servicesBurial21Cremation28Green burial3Pre-need arrangements16Veterans services5Out-of-state and international transport11Human composting1Water cremation (aquamation)2Home funeral support1
Any faithJewish2Catholic1Orthodox Christian3Muslim1
Any languageSpanish14Russian1Polish3

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.

75 funeral homes and crematories in Chicago

Drake & Son Funeral Home

5303 North Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625

Chicago funeral home on three and a half acres, with three chapels for services of different sizes, a coffee lounge and ample parking. It has served Chicago since 1956.

Spanish spokenCremation

1-773-561-6874

Elmwood Chapel, Ltd.

11200 South Ewing Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617

Funeral chapel on Chicago's East Side opened in 1989, one of three Elmwood Chapel homes with St. John and Cedar Lake, Indiana. Its cremations are performed at the family's own crematory in Cedar Lake under a Certified Crematory Operator, families may view the start of a cremation, and visitation and funeral can be held the same day.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-773-731-2749

Evans Funeral Home, Ltd.

6453 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60636

Chicago funeral home founded in 1964 and still run by the founder's children, with a spacious chapel and viewing rooms added in a 1979 renovation. A family member greets each family, conducts the arrangement consultation and serves on the day of the service.

BurialCremationOut-of-state and international transport

1-773-925-0800

G Martinez Funeral Home

5725 S. Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL 60629

1-773-767-4730

Gardner Funeral Home Inc.

2533 West 71st Street, Chicago, IL 60629

Chicago funeral home founded in 1995, with three chapels and secured onsite parking. Arranges Islamic funerals (Janazah) with the local Muslim community, including ghusl, kafan and Salat al-Janazah.

Muslim funeralsCremation

1-773-737-2734

Garfield Waters Funeral Home

3409 W. Madison, Chicago, IL 60624

Chicago West Side funeral home established in 1997, continued by a licensed funeral director and embalmer as the family business of its founder. Keeps a separate line answered around the clock.

1-773-638-6278

Gatling's Chapel, Inc.

10133 S. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60628

Chicago funeral chapel established in 1985, one of two Gatling's Chapel locations with a second chapel in South Holland. Has pre-need counselors and takes death calls 24 hours a day.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-773-881-4111

Golden Gate Funeral Home

2036 W. 79th St., Chicago, IL 60620

Chicago funeral home begun in the 1960s and in its present building since the early 1970s; it was once the only African-American funeral home in Chicago with a completely white fleet of limousines and hearses. Part of Concord Family Services since 1996.

1-773-846-7900

Grein Funeral Directors

2114 W. Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL 60618

Chicago funeral home founded in 1889 and independently owned since, in an Art Deco building dedicated in 1931 with four chapels and a reception lounge of original carved wood paneling. Serves Chicago and Lake County.

Cremation

1-773-588-6336

Griesel Jimenez Stodden Funeral Home

10240 South Ewing Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617

Chicago funeral home founded in 1919 and owned since 2003 by a family of licensed funeral directors and embalmers. Has a single-family chapel and transports the deceased to and from Mexico.

BurialCremationOut-of-state and international transport

1-773-768-0632

Heneghan-Suerth Funeral & Cremation Services, LLC

6250 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60646

Chicago funeral and cremation service, one of two Heneghan-Suerth locations, the other in Niles.

1-773-631-1240

Hudson Funeral Home, Ltd

8745-47 S. Commercial Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617

Chicago funeral home whose doors are open to families seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

1-773-759-8928

Inclusive Funeral Care

4880 N. Clark St #C4778, Chicago, IL 60640

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.

BurialCremationWater cremation (aquamation)Green burialPre-need arrangements+3

1-773-318-1305

Irving Park Cemetery

7777 Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL 60634

Non-denominational cemetery on Chicago's Northwest Side, established in 1918 and laid out in the Prairie style. It has the Briarwood Court Garden Mausoleums with companion and side-by-side crypts, a chapel, a veterans section, a Muslim section, and cremation niches and gardens.

Spanish spokenBurial

1-773-625-3500

Jones Funeral Home

3240 W. 79th Street, Chicago, IL 60652

Family owned Chicago funeral home founded in 1964 that serves families of all faiths, customs and traditions.

Cremation

1-773-778-0400

Jos. R. Jones Funeral Home Ltd.

5515 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60651

Chicago funeral home founded in 1973, with air-conditioned chapels, quiet sitting rooms and private parking. Also offers tax consultation and notary public services and helps families file insurance and government forms.

1-773-378-2232

Kolbus - John V. May Funeral Home

6857 West Higgins Road, Chicago, IL 60656

Chicago funeral home built in 1955 and updated in 2006. It carries on the John V. May Funeral Home, a Jefferson Park fixture whose business was consolidated here in 2005 when its own building closed.

1-773-774-3232

Lakeview Funeral Home

1458 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago, IL 60657

Family-owned Chicago funeral home that has served Lakeview for generations, now in its second century, and reserves its facility for one family's service at a time. An addition made the building fully wheelchair accessible and added lower-level family rooms with game tables and a library; it has parking for 25 cars.

Spanish spokenPre-need arrangements

1-773-472-6300

Lincoln Cemetery

12300 South Kedzie Avenue, Chicago, IL 60655

Chicago-area cemetery opened in 1911 as an African American cemetery at the proposal of a group of African American funeral directors, now about 112 acres in three sections. It has a veterans section with a memorial service each Memorial Day, a 9/11 memorial, a chapel, mausoleums and cremation niches.

Burial

1-773-445-5400

M. Martinez Funeral Service Incorporated

5800 West 63rd Street, Chicago, IL 60638

Chicago funeral home that specializes in ship outs, with downloadable authorization forms for embalming, cremation, body release and mailing cremated remains, one of them in Spanish.

Spanish spoken

1-773-284-5755
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