When fully developed it will provide 400,000 burial spaces.

Initial construction developed approximately 150 acres including:

• 25,000 gravesites, 2,000 lawn crypts, 3,000 columbary niches and 2,300 garden niches for cremated remains;
• Cemetery entrance area and public information center;
• Committal service shelters;
• Assembly area and memorial walkway;
• Administration/maintenance complex; and,
• Roadways and landscaping.

Billy Murphy, former director of Willamette, Ore., National Cemetery, was selected as the cemetery's director in June 1998.

The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery is named after the 16th President of the United States and founder of National Cemeteries (July 17, 1862). President Lincoln's legacy is especially important to the people of Illinois, where he worked and lived. He is buried in the Oak Ridge Cemetery near the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where many additional sites of historical interest are located.

• Cemetery Burial Hours: 9:30am -2:30pm Monday-Friday (non holidays)


• Office Hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday-Friday


• Grounds are open during daylight hours every day of the year.


• Gravesite reservations cannot be made in advance. At the time of need, a copy of the veteran's honorable discharge should be presented to the funeral home by family members when making burial arrangements.


• Because of the volume of burials conducted each day, national cemeteries do not have gravesite services. Committal services are held at one of the three permanent committal shelters on cemetery grounds. Committal services are scheduled every 30 minutes.


• There is no charge for any service provided by Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. This includes the gravesite, opening and closing the grave, headstone or grave marker and perpetual care. The cemetery also provides a government graveliner for casketed remains.


• Although the cemetery can provide for both the playing of "Taps" and the folding and presentation of the flag, the cemetery does not provide military honors nor the flag for the veteran. The Military Honors Sub-Committee of the Veterans Support Committee is working to establish a list of volunteer groups who would be available to perform military honors. The cemetery will provide the list, when completed, to funeral homes and family members. You may receive your flag from any US Post Office by showing a copy of the military release forms and death certificate.


• For cremated remains, Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery offers both garden niches for in-ground burial or columbaria niches above ground.


• The cemetery will allow 3 floral arrangements on the gravesite at the time of the burial. We encourage family members to take floral arrangements with them at the conclusion of the committal service.


• Viewing remains is not authorized in national cemeteries.

DuPage Cremations, Ltd. will take care of all the necessary paperwork in order to get approval for burial.

Call (815) 423-9958 or (708) 202-8236 for more information about burial in the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery or visit the National Cemetery Administration Web Site

E-mail us: info@dupagecremations.com