8 funeral homes and crematories serving Orthodox Christian families 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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8 funeral homes and crematories serving Orthodox Christian families in Illinois
Independently owned Chicago funeral home with Greek Orthodox funeral care, supplying the icons, the Orthodox cross for the casket, the burial shroud and Greek prayer cards. Holds wakes and services at funeral chapels, churches and private venues across the Chicago area, and comes to the family when they cannot reach its office.
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.
Chicago Christian Orthodox funeral home consecrated in 2000, holding funerals by Orthodox tradition. Handles funerals from anywhere in the United States to cemeteries in the former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe, with its own staff in Serbia, and is certified by the TSA as a Known Shipper.
Des Plaines funeral directors specializing in Greek Orthodox funeral traditions, tracing to a Chicago funeral home founded in 1899. Holds services in partnering funeral homes, chapels and churches across the Chicago area, and makes arrangements at its Des Plaines office or in the family's home.
Family-owned New Lenox funeral service founded in 1994 that serves one family at a time, holding services in affiliated funeral homes across Chicago, the southwest and western suburbs and Northwest Indiana. Arrangements are made in the family's own home, and its Greek Orthodox funerals include a blessed burial garment and soil from Greece for the grave.
Palatine funeral home opened in 1987, one of three run by a family firm dating to 1912 and now in its fourth generation. Has three chapels, two arrangement rooms and a lounge; the firm has its own crematory and serves Greek Orthodox families together with Adinamis Funeral Directors.
River Grove cemetery and mausoleum, a cemetery since 1896 on land that was a Union Army post, with an on-site chapel seating up to 250, an on-site floral shop and family estate lots. Eastern Orthodox families have chosen it for generations, and its grounds hold Civil War memorials and a Hellenic American Veterans Memorial.
Wheeling funeral home of the same family since 1930, in a 1935 colonial house with large video screens for services. It was the first funeral home in the country to hold a liquor license and offers cocktail receptions; its Chicago Greek Funerals service specializes in Greek Orthodox rites. It also serves Buffalo Grove, Arlington Heights, Lincolnshire, Northbrook and Prospect Heights.
