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.
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
Georgetown chapel of Sunset Funeral Home & Cremation Center, the former Houghton-Leasure Funeral Home, which Sunset acquired in 1994. An 8,000-square-foot building with a fireplace and a café that also hosts a children's program on funerals. Cremations are performed at Sunset's own crematory in Danville, which serves only Sunset families.
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.
Greenville funeral home in a recently remodeled downtown building nearly 200 years old, continuing a lineage of nearly a century that began as the Dewey Funeral Home. One of four Assalley Funeral Homes, it serves Pocahontas, Mulberry Grove, Smithboro, Donnellson, Pierron, Panama and Keyesport in Bond County, and Carlyle in Clinton County. Every service includes live streaming of the ceremonies.
Gurnee funeral home on the grounds of a burial ground established in 1846, with arrangement offices, a chapel, a customer lounge and audio and video systems. The grounds hold a chapel mausoleum built in 2003.
Harrisburg funeral home in a building built for use as a funeral home, with a chapel that seats 160 on one level, no ramps or steps and full accessibility. Cremation is contracted with a local provider, and calls are answered by a funeral professional at any hour, never an answering service.
Harvard funeral home with its own crematory, in its present building since 1938 and run as Saunders & McFarlin since 1985. Pre-planning can be arranged at the funeral home or at the family's home, and it serves the Harvard community and its rural area.
Herrin funeral home with a chapel, run together with the Maxton-Rosado chapels in Du Quoin and Centralia by owners who took over to carry on where the former owners left off.
Hillsboro funeral home, one of three Hough-Dean locations with Raymond and Coffeen, run by a family that has served the area for more than 125 years. Services can be held at a family's church or any of its locations, and it also provides monuments.
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.
Huntley funeral home with its own crematory on site, in a building opened in May 2010 with two chapels, a reception area, a children's room and a kitchenette. It holds quarterly grief seminars, a Valentine's Day luncheon for those who have lost a spouse and a December holiday memorial service, and sells monuments and markers.
Joliet funeral home with its own crematory, where families may witness the cremation; the family has served the area for five generations since 1854. Its chapel, built in 1991, is all on one level with large chapel areas, and the firm has a second chapel in Morris and serves Will, Grundy and Kendall counties.
Joliet funeral and cremation practice run by a licensed funeral director who is also a certified grief counselor, crematory operator and funeral celebrant. Services are held at Blackburn Funeral Home, and arrangements are made at the family's home or the director's home office.
Joliet cemetery of 22 acres with bronze lamps, a butterfly garden, a swan pond and a restored bell tower, serving families since 1929. It has Greek Orthodox and Serbian Orthodox burial sections and offers natural burial.
Small, private Kankakee funeral home with a second location in Momence, serving Kankakee, Bourbonnais and Bradley. Its new facility has a chapel and holds visitations, funerals and memorial services.
Kankakee funeral home, family owned and operated since 1936. Its certified advance planning counselor helps families plan ahead and, after a funeral, visits them to help file for Social Security, insurance and veterans benefits.
Kewanee funeral home carrying on a line of service that began with the Erickson-McHugh Funeral Home in the early 1900s; the Rux name dates to 1974. Its directors pre-arrange and pre-fund funerals through Pekin Life Insurance, and Rux also has homes in Galva and Williamsfield.
Lake Forest funeral firm started in 2015 as a partnership of two licensed funeral directors and embalmers. Has a certified funeral celebrant on staff whose work includes pre-need planning and public talks on funeral options.
Lake Zurich funeral home built in 1987 by a firm that began as Ahlgrim Undertakers in Chicago in 1892, with a sister home in Palatine. Has an outdoor patio for services, and cremations take place at the firm's own onsite crematory.
Lake Zurich funeral home opened in 2017, with its own crematory on site. Its three chapels hold services large or small, and its two lounges have kitchen facilities.
Lake Zurich crematory of Journey Cremations, a direct cremation business that has served the Chicago area since 2012 and cremates at its own crematory. Serves Cook, Lake, DuPage, Kane, McHenry and Will counties, with arrangements completed remotely through DocuSign.
