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Pre-Need Funeral Arrangements in Illinois

196 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements 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.

All States2684Alabama119Alaska7Arizona23Arkansas114California260Colorado105Connecticut77Delaware33District of Columbia5Florida365Georgia147Hawaii8Idaho44Illinois196Indiana172Iowa151Kansas101Kentucky95Nevada40New Jersey168New York454
All of Illinois196Adams County1Boone County1Brown County1Bureau County2Carroll County1Champaign County3Clay County1Coles County2Cook County45Crawford County1DuPage County10Effingham1Fayette County1Ford County1Franklin County1Fulton County1Henry County1Jackson County1Jo Daviess County2Kane County8Kankakee4Kendall County2Lake County12LaSalle County4Lee County1Logan County2Macon County2Macoupin County1Madison County3Marion County2McDonough County1McHenry County8McLean County12Mercer County1Moultrie County1Ogle County1Perry County3Pulaski County1Randolph County1Richland County1Rock Island6Saline County1Sangamon County1Schuyler County1St. Clair County6Stephenson County3Tazewell County2Vermilion County4Wabash County1White County1Whiteside County2Will County8Williamson County2Winnebago County8Woodford County2
All servicesBurial158Cremation320Green burial26Pre-need arrangements196Veterans services70Out-of-state and international transport30Human composting1Water cremation (aquamation)16Home funeral support1
Any faithJewish12Catholic6Orthodox Christian8Muslim2Hindu4
Any languageSpanish36Vietnamese1Korean1Russian4Polish9

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.

196 funeral homes and crematories offering pre-need arrangements in Illinois

Memory Eternal Funeral Directors, Ltd.

2800 S. River Road, Suite 170, Des Plaines, IL 60018

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.

Orthodox Christian funeralsCatholic funeralsSpanish spokenBurialCremation+3

1-847-375-0095

Maxton-Rosado Funeral Home

11 S. Hickory St., Du Quoin, IL 62832

Du Quoin funeral home, the Maxton Chapel of Maxton-Rosado, which also runs the Queen-Boggs Chapel in Centralia and Johnson-Hughes Funeral Home in Herrin. Has a 70-seat chapel, and offers every family a therapy comfort dog at its services.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-618-542-2020

Searby Funeral Homes, Ltd.

130 S. Washington Street, Du Quoin, IL 62832

Family-owned Du Quoin funeral home in a landmark Victorian building, with a second chapel in Tamaroa, serving Perry County.

Pre-need arrangements

1-618-542-2044

McCorkle Funeral Home

101 Main Street, Durand, IL 61024

Durand funeral home established in 1857 and in the McCorkle family since 1957, with chapels also in Rockton and Pecatonica. Its staff is licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin, and every ceremony can be streamed live and recorded.

Pre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-815-248-2200

Miller Funeral Home

1185 Route 35 North, East Dubuque, IL 61025

East Dubuque funeral home of the Miller Funeral Home Group, which also runs Miller & Steinke Funeral Home in Scales Mound. Licensed in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, it serves families across northwest Illinois, eastern Iowa and southwest Wisconsin, and offers basic cremation or cremation with a full funeral.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-815-747-3194

Van Hoe Funeral Home

1500 6th Street, East Moline, IL 61244

East Moline funeral home whose history goes back to 1923, part of Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home & Crematory since 2022. Shares ownership of Black Hawk Crematory in Rock Island, keeps an arrangement center with selection rooms behind the funeral home, and records funeral services for families to keep.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-309-755-1414

Gary Deiters Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc.

444 E. Washington Street, East Peoria, IL 61611

East Peoria funeral home opened in 2004 as the second location of Deiters Funeral Home, founded in 1999, and run on its own since that business was split in 2017. Its owner is a certified crematory operator, an advance planning specialist is on staff, and its cremation division is Cremation Specialist of Central Illinois.

Pre-need arrangements

1-309-694-9831

Calvert Johnson & Musselman Funeral Homes

209 North Grant Street, El Paso, IL 61738

El Paso funeral home in the Calvert Funeral Homes group, one of seven Calvert Johnson Memorial homes with Flanagan, Henry, Lexington, Minonk, Toluca and Washburn.

Pre-need arrangements

1-309-527-2490

Conley Funeral Home

116 W. Pierce Street, Elburn, IL 60119

Elburn funeral home serving families for four generations, in a former family residence with a children's center, kitchen and family room on its lower level. A child bereavement specialist and a full-time therapist are on staff, and the Conley family founded Conley Outreach, a nonprofit grief counseling service, in 1983.

BurialCremationOut-of-state and international transportPre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-630-365-6414

Symonds Madison Funeral Homes

305 Park Sreet, Elgin, IL 60120

Elgin funeral home founded downtown in 1921 as Marsh & Conn Funeral Home and carried on by its current owners since 2013. Families may witness the cremation, and the home ships remains abroad, including to Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala. It runs Operation LOVE, which holds community funerals for unclaimed veterans.

BurialCremationGreen burialOut-of-state and international transportVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-847-741-1128

Gibbons Funeral Home

134 South York Road, Elmhurst, IL 60126

Elmhurst funeral home opened in 1960 by a family that has run funeral homes since 1935, with sister homes in Chicago and Itasca. Services are streamed online for those who cannot attend, and its directors arrange donation of a body to science through the Anatomical Gift Association.

BurialCremationPre-need arrangements

1-630-832-0018

Kassly Mortuary, Ltd.

9900 St. Clair Avenue, Fairview Heights, IL 62208

Fairview Heights mortuary of the Kassly family, whose funeral business began in East St. Louis in 1906; the family opened this mortuary in 1971 and is in its fourth generation of funeral directors. Set on wooded grounds with three lakes, with a spacious lounge and a children's playroom.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-618-398-1122

Calvert, Belange, Bruce Funeral Homes, L.L.C.

106 N. Main St., Farmer City, IL 61842

Farmer City funeral home in the Calvert Funeral Homes group, one of five Calvert Belangee Bruce homes with Heyworth, LeRoy, Mansfield and Saybrook.

Pre-need arrangements

1-309-928-2212

Frank & Bright Funeral Home and Cremation Services

500 North Main Street, Flora, IL 62839

Flora funeral home and cremation service whose history begins with Branson Funeral Home, opened in 1929. It keeps a media room with a lending library of grief and funeral-planning books and videos, and hands out Five Wishes booklets.

BurialCremationVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-618-662-2141

Illinois Natural Burial

74 E. Grand Avenue, Suite 101, Fox Lake, IL 60020

Fox Lake funeral home trading as Hamsher Funerals & Cremations, founded in 1953 as KK Hamsher Funeral Home, with Illinois Natural Burial as its natural burial brand. It holds services at partner locations in McHenry and Lake Villa or at a family's place of worship, and offers embalming with Green Burial Council-approved products.

BurialCremationGreen burialPre-need arrangements

1-847-587-2100

Heartland Memorial Center, Inc.

65 Old Frankfort Way, Frankfort, IL 60423

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.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-708-444-2266

Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens

2514 Illinois Route 26 South, Freeport, IL 61032

Freeport memorial park cemetery founded in 1951 on 80 acres, with grave markers set flush with the lawns, eleven gardens including Catholic and Masonic gardens, three mausoleums and niches for more than 700 urns. Its Chapel of Peace, built in 1993, seats 60 for committal services in any weather.

Catholic funeralsBurialPre-need arrangements

1-815-235-2167

Walker Mortuary & Cremation

321 W. Main St., Freeport, IL 61032

Freeport funeral home established in 1923 in the first building in Stephenson County used for funerals. Has had its own crematory since 2007, where families may witness the cremation from a private viewing room, and runs a second home, Daughenbaugh Funeral Home in Dakota, and a monument company.

CremationPre-need arrangements

1-815-232-2136

Furlong Funeral Chapel

100 Caroldon Court, Galena, IL 61036

Galena funeral home, family owned and serving the tri-states since 1896, when it opened as a furniture and undertaking business. Moved into its present building in 2005.

BurialCremationVeterans servicesPre-need arrangements

1-815-777-9122

Malone Funeral Home, Ltd.

324 E. State, Geneva, IL 60134

Geneva funeral home run by the Malone family since 1924, with a spacious chapel, lounge areas, a children's play area and ample parking. Helps families pre-arrange funerals for nursing home and public aid planning.

Pre-need arrangementsVeterans services

1-630-232-8233
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