70 funeral homes and crematories offering veterans services 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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70 funeral homes and crematories offering veterans services in Illinois
Plainfield funeral home serving Plainfield and south Naperville since 1955, the sister home of Friedrich-Jones in Naperville. Its one-level French country building has two chapels, two conference rooms, a children's area and two lounges, and the staff answer the phone around the clock with no answering service.
Posen funeral home serving families since 1938 and a recipient of the 2021 Illinois Award for Funeral Service. Makes arrangements seven days a week, including at the family's home, and keeps the deceased in its own care rather than sending them to a regional holding facility.
Princeton funeral home, one of two Grant-Johnson homes with Bradford, with its own crematory run by licensed and certified staff. A veteran-owned business, it offers live-streamed services and tribute videos.
Quincy funeral home founded in 1929, in a 1965 building with a funeral chapel with fixed pews, two visitation parlors and a downstairs lounge where families may rest and have refreshments. It offers green funerals as a partner provider with aGreenerFuneral.org and hosts a holiday grief support event each December.
Rockford nonprofit cemetery, founded in 1927, for full burials and cremation burials, with a cremation garden, a columbarium and Monument Garden for upright above-ground cremation niche monuments. Has a Babyland section for children under two and a Muslim section whose burial rights belong to the Muslim Association of Greater Rockford.
Rockford chapel and reception center of Olson Funeral & Cremation Services, family owned since 1888: Three Oaks Chapel, with a piano, and the Legacy Life Celebration Center, a reception room with a coffee bar and a full bar, on grounds with a butterfly garden and a walking path. Services can be streamed online, and the firm has its own crematory in Winnebago.
Romeoville funeral chapel with the Heartland Cremation crematory on site, among the larger chapels in Will County. The first of the Anderson Memorial Homes, opened in 1991, with sister homes in Plainfield (Crest Hill) and Lockport. Authorized to repatriate remains to Mexico and the Philippines, with staff available 24 hours a day.
Round Lake funeral home of the Justen firm, whose roots in McHenry County go back to 1882; the family bought it in 1989 and extensively remodeled it. The firm's second-largest location, with a selection room and gathering spaces for groups of many sizes.
Savoy funeral home, family owned and in its own building since 1997, serving Champaign/Urbana and Savoy in Champaign and Piatt Counties. Services can be livestreamed to family and friends who cannot attend.
Schaumburg funeral home opened in 1971 by a family whose undertaking business began in Chicago in 1892, also serving Hoffman Estates, Inverness and Streamwood. Its chapels seat over 100, each family has its own lounge, and tribute slideshows play on 60-inch screens in the chapels.
Schaumburg funeral home serving the Chicagoland suburbs since 1976, with two visitation salons seating 75 and 120 guests, each with its own coffee lounge, renovated in 2013 and updated in 2020. Its staff trained in the Donate Life America Champion Funeral Home Program for families of organ, eye and tissue donors.
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.
South Holland water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis) provider, open by appointment, and the first flameless cremation facility in Illinois. Sells direct flameless cremation to families and works with any funeral home whose family wants a wake and service first; on-site refrigeration means no embalming is needed.
South Holland chapel of Smits Funeral Homes, a firm founded in 1984 that also has homes in Steger and in Dyer, Indiana. Carries on the DeYoung Funeral Home of the early 1900s, owned by the Vroegh family from 1957 and by Smits since 1988; has a chapel and a lounge, and the firm arranges military burials at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.
Springfield funeral home in the historic downtown mansion it has occupied since 1927, one of three locations of the Butler group, which dates to 1893. Its crematory lets families gather and be present at the start of a cremation, and it has a large-capacity chapel, certified celebrants and close ties to Roselawn Memorial Park, a cemetery with green burial.
Springfield funeral home that trades with Springfield Crematory under one name, with a private family area, handicap access and ample parking. Its staff help locate clergy and arrange military honors.
Springfield funeral home run by its founding family since 1937, in a Victorian house built in 1873, with a second home in Sherman opened in 2017. Services can be streamed live; the firm runs its own monument company and built the Abraham Lincoln funeral hearse replica for the 2015 reenactment.
St. Charles funeral home in a home-like downtown building opened in 1950, with a sister home in Geneva built in 1994. It arranges military funeral honors through the Department of Defense and the VA National Cemetery Administration, and offers families a tour of its homes.
Steger funeral chapel of Smits Funeral Homes, which also has chapels in South Holland and in Dyer, Indiana. Established in 1964, it has a homelike setting with a spacious lounge, accessibility for people with disabilities and parking, and is not affiliated with the Steger Funeral Home.
