What to Do When Someone Dies in Cook County, Illinois

Schaumburg firm serving northwest suburban Cook County with estate planning and probate. Beyond routine administration, it represents parties in contested probate — will contests and estate disputes — and handles guardianships and powers of attorney. Free initial consultation.

Park Ridge firm with over 40 years of experience in estate planning, wills, trusts, probate, and trust/estate litigation including disputes over undue influence, fraud, and fiduciary matters.

Serving Oak Park, Forest Park, Berwyn, Cicero, Riverside, and the western Chicago suburbs with estate planning, probate, and family law services.

Orland Park solo practice serving south suburban Cook, DuPage, and Will counties. Guides executors, administrators, and heirs through probate and estate administration — will interpretation, asset identification and distribution, real-estate sales, and account closure — with particular depth on the tax side of settling an estate.

Arlington Heights practice led by Donald J. Cosley, serving northwest Cook County — Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Mount Prospect, and Barrington. Drafts wills, living trusts, and powers of attorney and guides executors through probate administration after a death. Free consultations, with evening and weekend availability.

North Shore firm in downtown Evanston serving Evanston and north-suburban Cook County families. Handles probate after a death — taking charge of the decedent’s assets, paying debts, and distributing inheritances to heirs — plus trust administration and estate mediation. Managing attorney Daci Jett focuses the practice on middle-class families rather than high-net-worth planning.

Chicago estate planning firm on the Magnificent Mile providing wills, trusts, kids protection planning, guardianship, asset protection planning, conservatorship, special needs planning, estate tax protection, probate, and trust administration with a flat-fee billing model.

Skokie firm covering north-central Cook County — Skokie, Niles, Lincolnwood, and the north side of Chicago. Handles estate administration and probate after a death, moving a decedent’s accounts and property through the probate court, alongside elder-law and Medicaid work. Attorney Zisl Edelson pairs probate with special-needs and long-term-care planning.

Chicago estate planning practice providing wills, trusts, powers of attorney, guardianship, and probate services with a modern flat-fee model.

Solo practice in downtown Oak Park serving near-west Cook County — Oak Park, Forest Park, and River Forest. Handles probate and estate administration along with wills, trusts, and elder-law matters for local families. Offers evening and weekend appointments and Spanish-language service.

Loop firm on West Wacker Drive with a settlement-heavy probate practice, representing executors, administrators, heirs, and beneficiaries through every phase of Cook County estate administration, including contested estates and creditor claims. Also builds estate plans around trusts, transfer-on-death instruments, and beneficiary designations. Free consultations.

Loop-based estate and probate practice serving Chicago’s North Side and surrounding suburbs. Guides families through Illinois probate and trust administration after a death, and concentrates on special-needs and Medicaid asset-protection trusts for households planning around a disabled beneficiary or long-term care. Offers virtual appointments and a free consultation.

South-suburban Cook County firm in Tinley Park led by Andrew L. Horberg, with roughly 37 years in estate planning and probate. Handles probate and probate litigation for families in the south and southwest suburbs and prepares the wills and trusts behind them, along with the real-estate transfers that follow an estate.

Northwest-suburban firm in Palatine serving Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, and surrounding northwest Cook County. Represents executors through probate, trustees in trust administration, and parties in estate and trust disputes, alongside Illinois and federal estate-tax planning. The Palatine practice traces back more than 30 years.

Chicago-based firm providing probate administration and estate planning services.

Serves South Side Chicago and South Suburbs with probate and decedent estates services.

One of the few estate and probate firms on Chicago’s Southwest Side, at 63rd Street in Cook County, with a second office in West Chicago. Prepares wills and revocable and irrevocable trusts and administers probate estates, pairing estate work with the real-estate closings that arise when a property owner dies.

Successor to Chester M. Przybylo & Associates (est. ~1977). Serving northwest Chicago communities including Jefferson Park, Park Ridge, Niles, Norwood Park, and Edison Park with estate and trust planning, elder law, Medicaid planning, guardianships, and special needs trusts.

Premier boutique firm specializing in estate/trust litigation, guardianship, and elder law. U.S. News Tier 1 Elder Law firm in Chicago.

Orland Park firm serving Cook and Will counties in Chicago’s south suburbs. Represents trustees, executors, and beneficiaries in trust and estate administration and probate — creditor and claimant issues, Illinois and federal estate tax returns, accountings, settlement agreements, and fiduciary disputes — alongside estate planning for business owners.

Loop firm on N. Michigan Avenue with deep coverage of south Cook County — Hyde Park, Calumet City, Dolton, Harvey, Homewood, Oak Lawn, and South Holland. Handles uncontested probate to move a decedent’s estate through court, plus transfer-on-death instruments, trusts, and powers of attorney. Focuses on simplifying uncontested probate for South Side and south-suburban families.

Since 1983, Wilson & Wilson has provided estate planning and elder law counsel from La Grange and Deerfield, with specialization in Medicaid planning and special needs planning.

Chicago litigation firm on North LaSalle Street representing executors and heirs in Cook County probate and estate litigation — estate administration, will validity and contests, asset discovery, creditor and heir notice, and intestate-succession disputes. Over 40 years of civil litigation experience.

One of the largest and most established law firms in Kane County, with over 35 years advising clients on estate planning, asset protection, and tax matters. Offices in South Elgin and Huntley serving the greater Fox Valley and Chicago suburban area.

Lake Forest firm on S. Saunders Road serving Lake County and the North Shore. Handles probate and estate administration for executors, plus trust settlement, powers of attorney, guardianship planning, and beneficiary designations. Includes digital-asset planning in its estate work.

Oakbrook Terrace firm adding DuPage estate coverage east of Naperville and Wheaton. Represents trustees and named beneficiaries through DuPage County probate — court appearances, marshaling and managing estate assets, and fiduciary and estate tax filings — alongside wills and trust administration.

Frankfort-based firm advising clients through estate planning and probate issues, covering Will and Cook counties.

Aurora practice focused entirely on probate and guardianship across DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Will, and Cook counties. Gets executors appointed, opens intestate estates where a relative died without a will, and represents heirs in contested probate — the settlement-side work of moving an estate through the Illinois courts. Free initial consultation.

Northbrook firm concentrating in estate planning, wills, trusts, estate administration, trust litigation, and guardianship. Eric Matlin has over 30 years of focused estate planning experience.

DuPage County firm providing comprehensive representation in probate administration, contested estates, trust litigation, and estate planning from offices in Wheaton and Chicago.

Since 1988, Attorney Hauenschild has served families in New Lenox, Joliet, Frankfort, Mokena, and the south/southwestern Chicago suburbs with estate planning, elder law, and guardianship.

Serving Chicago North Shore communities including Northbrook, Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Deerfield, and Evanston with estate planning, probate, and trust administration.

Founded by a former Kirkland & Ellis partner, providing estate planning, wills, trusts, and probate services from suburban Frankfort, also serving Mokena, New Lenox, Tinley Park, and surrounding communities.