45 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Cook County, Illinois, listed by city. 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.
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.
45 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Cook County
Arlington Heights funeral provider founded in 2009 that keeps no funeral chapel of its own, holding services in chapels of area funeral homes, in a temple or synagogue, or at the cemetery. It arranges a shomer and the Chevra Kadisha for taharah, mails a reminder before each yahrzeit, and offers grief counseling.
Arlington Heights administrative office of a funeral and cremation firm that has served Chicagoland families since 1983. The firm runs chapels in Chicago, Mount Prospect, Des Plaines, Franklin Park, Melrose Park, North Riverside, Northbrook, Brookfield and Schiller Park, and offers water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis).
Arlington Heights Jewish funeral home on the grounds of Shalom Memorial Park cemetery, with on-site tahara, shomer's quarters and a chapel seating 125 or 300. Live streams graveside services and offers funeral plans for Reform, Conservative and Orthodox observance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
South Side Chicago funeral home founded in 1947 and run by the founding family's third and fourth generations, with a second home on the West Side. Stays open late for visitations and has an award-winning cosmetics team.
Chicago funeral home and chapel that has offered funeral, memorial and cremation services since 1977, owned since 2019 by the owners of Coston Funeral Homes, a Pittsburgh firm founded in 1963. Cremations can be arranged online, and it also serves South Holland and Dolton.
Chicago funeral home and cremation provider in Irving Park, owned and run by its family since 2018 and independent of any national company. Its building has a chapel, a private visitation room, a gathering room and an urn selection room. Families can arrange online and track each step, and it handles the consulate paperwork, translations and flight to send remains to Mexico.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chicago funeral home opened in 1999 by the third generation of a funeral family that dates to 1923. Embalming and preparation are done on its own premises, it serves one family at a time, and its chapel is open to any denominational service, with a room for video tributes.
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 run by the third, fourth and fifth generations of its founding family, which began the business over 100 years ago. This Northwest location shares a block with two cemeteries, and the family also runs the Acacia Park cemetery and crematory and a second home near the Loop.
Chicago funeral home that opened in 1957 and has been owned by one family since 1981, with spacious chapels and a large coffee lounge.
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.
