This list of cemeteries in Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed)

cemeteries A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ) implies th ...

columbaria A columbarium (; pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding Cremation, cremated remains of the dead. The term comes from the Latin ''wikt:columba, columba'' (do ...

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mausolea A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of ...

which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries.

Adams County

* Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Chapel and Cemetery, Golden * Quincy National Cemetery, Quincy; NRHP-listed *

Woodland Cemetery A woodland cemetery is a cemetery where the original landscape, with existing trees, is given much influence on the landscape architecture of the cemetery. A woodland cemetery is designed so that the landscape is given a more prominent position, ...

, Quincy

Bureau County

* Oakland Cemetery,

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Cook County

DuPage County

* Mount Emblem Cemetery, Elmhurst

Effingham County

* Ramsey Cemetery, rural

Fulton County

* Oak Hill Cemetery, Lewistown

Ogle County

Jackson County

Woodlawn Cemetery Woodlawn Cemetery is the name of several cemeteries, including: Canada * Woodlawn Cemetery (Saskatoon) * Woodlawn Cemetery (Nova Scotia) United States ''(by state then city or town)'' * Woodlawn Cemetery (Ocala, Florida), where Isaac Rice and fa ...

, Carbondale

Jersey County

* Oak Grove Cemetery, Jerseyville

Jo Daviess County

* Greenwood Cemetery,

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Lake County

Lake Forest Cemetery Lake Forest Cemetery is a rural cemetery in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. The site was first identified for burial in 1857 when the town of Lake Forest was planned. Later, William Le Baron Jenney designed a winding road system and Ossia ...

, Lake Forest

LaSalle County

* Ottawa Avenue Cemetery,

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* Summit View Cemetery,

Livingston County

* Bayou Cemetery,

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Hancock County

* Smith Family Cemetery, Nauvoo

Henderson County

* South Henderson Church,

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; NRHP-listed

Macoupin County

* Union Miners Cemetery, Mount Olive; NRHP-listed

Madison County

* Alton National Cemetery,

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; NRHP-listed * Sunset Hill Cemetery, Glen Carbon

McHenry County

Mount Auburn Cemetery Mount Auburn Cemetery, located in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, is the first rural or garden cemetery in the United States. It is the burial site of many prominent Boston Brahmins, and is a National Historic Landmark. Dedicated in ...

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McLean County

* Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground, Holder * Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington

Peoria County

Springdale Cemetery Springdale Cemetery is a historic, non-sectarian, active cemetery in the United States city of Peoria, Illinois. It was chartered in 1855, received its first interment in 1857. Almost 78,000 individuals are buried at the cemetery. It contains a pu ...

, Peoria

Pulaski County

* Mound City National Cemetery, Mound City; NRHP-listed

Rock Island County

* Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island * Riverside Cemetery, Moline * Rock Island National Cemetery, Rock Island; NRHP-listed

Sangamon County

Camp Butler National Cemetery Camp Butler National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located a few miles northeast of Springfield and a few miles southwest of Riverton, a small town nearby to Springfield, in Sangamon County, Illinois. It was named for the Il ...

, near Springfield; NRHP-listed *

Oak Ridge Cemetery Oak Ridge Cemetery is an American cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. The Lincoln Tomb, where Abraham Lincoln, his wife and all but one of their children lie, is there, as are the graves of other prominent Illinois figures. Opened in 1860, it ...

, Springfield

Union County

* Campground Church and Cemetery Site,

Anna Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654) * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th c ...