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.
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45 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Cook County
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.
Chicago funeral home founded in the Mayfair neighborhood during the Depression and in its present building since 1955. Has a chapel seating up to one hundred, a viewing room and a coffee lounge, with adjacent parking, an elevator and disability access; staff are available 24 hours a day.
Chicago funeral home run by the same family since 1915, now its fourth generation of funeral directors, with three visitation rooms on one level and a sister home in Willow Springs. It ships and receives remains to and from Poland, the Slovak Republic and Mexico, and its staff answers the telephone at all hours.
Fourth-generation family-owned Chicago Ridge funeral home that has served communities across the Chicago area since 1897.
Countryside funeral home founded in 1923 and family owned into its third generation, with a second home in Downers Grove. The Countryside building, opened in 1964, was built with larger chapels and parking, and families may choose water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis) as well as flame cremation.
Crestwood funeral home of the Becvar family, whose funeral business began in Chicago in 1907 and is in its fourth generation. The Crestwood home opened in 1999, and the family lives above it to answer calls around the clock.
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.
Frankfort funeral home whose families are served at two Kurtz Memorial Chapel locations, in Frankfort and New Lenox, on one shared line. Funerals can be planned ahead at a seminar or in a one-on-one meeting.
Glenwood cemetery reputed to be the first racially integrated cemetery in the Chicago region, where African Americans could bury their dead under their own names. A cemetery only, with burial, mausoleum and inurnment and no cremation or funeral director services; its sister locations are Mt. Glenwood West in Willow Springs and Evergreen Hills in Steger.
Homewood cremation facility of the Cremation Society of Illinois, which has had a presence in Homewood since 2012. It has a crematory where families can witness the cremation, a private viewing area and two arrangement rooms; the society also offers a Lake Michigan scattering service.
Family-owned Lemont funeral home founded in 1890 and now run by a fourth-generation funeral director. At its present location since 1948, with expansions and renovations in 1983 and 1992, and available 24 hours a day.
Lombard cremation provider that operates its own cremation equipment, so the deceased stays in its care until the cremation is complete. It is family owned with over thirty years of cremation experience, and arrangements can be made through its website or at its Lombard office.
Norridge funeral home founded in August 1985 that has since added chapels and an on-site crematory. Open seven days a week, it can return cremated remains as solidified stones made by Parting Stone.
Northbrook Jewish funeral business that operates no chapels, holding services at graveside, in a synagogue or in the cemetery chapels at Westlawn, New Light and Sunset Memorial Lawns. Its own mortuary lets chevra kadishas perform taharas where no embalming takes place and gives shomers their own room. Opened in 2010; funerals are livestreamed.
Oak Lawn funeral home in operation since 1917 and family-owned and operated, with its own florist, the Country Daisy Flower Shop, which makes casket sprays and other funeral arrangements.
Family-owned Orland Park funeral home, one of three Lawn Funeral Home locations with Burbank and Tinley Park; the firm was founded in Burbank in 1962 and has served families for three generations. Its Simple Thank You service records guests and prints personalized acknowledgement cards and addressed envelopes.
Palatine funeral home built in 1964 by a firm that began as Ahlgrim Undertakers in Chicago in 1892, with a sister home in Lake Zurich. Its basement community room holds a haunted-theme nine-hole miniature golf course, never used during funerals, and cremations take place at the firm's own onsite crematory.
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.
Schiller Park cremation service with its own crematory, arrangement office, private family viewing room and temperature-controlled repository under one roof, serving Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties. Families may witness the cremation, partner funeral homes host wakes and memorial services, and arrangements can be made online or in person around the clock.
Schiller Park crematory of Chicagoland Cremation Options, run under one roof with its arrangement office, a private family viewing room and a temperature-controlled repository. Families may witness the cremation, every cremation follows a ten-step identification process, and arrangements can be made online or in person around the clock for Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties.
