8 funeral homes and crematories offering water cremation 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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8 funeral homes and crematories offering water cremation in Cook County
Arlington Heights water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis) provider with its own flameless cremation facility, open to tours in person or online, and a viewing and visitation area. Families can meet the crematory staff and receive progress updates; packages pair the cremation with Parting Stone stones or a Better Place Forest memorial tree.
Arlington Heights water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis) crematory of Cremation by Water, using a process without flame. Families may tour the facility in person or online and meet the crematory staff, whose operator is a certified alkaline hydrolysis technician.
Arlington Heights funeral home in a red brick building with four chapels, two reception lounges, and caskets, vaults, urns and clothing to choose from on site. Named Glueckert Funeral Home in 1976 and part of Dignity Memorial since 2024, it offers attended and water cremation and works with two Chicago-area cemeteries that provide natural burials.
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.
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.
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.
South Holland alkaline hydrolysis (flameless cremation) facility, the first in Illinois, with on-site refrigeration. Performs flameless cremation for funeral homes, which hold the wake and service, and for families who arrange a direct flameless cremation with AquaGreen.
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.
