Simply Elegant Spathiphyllum (Peace Lily) - Small Plant
$39· 24 florists
Sympathy flowers · Chicago
Sympathy flowers, sent with care across Chicago.
31 verified Chicago studios handle sympathy + funeral arrangements with the discretion the moment requires. Same-day routing to Northwestern Memorial + Lurie Children's + Shirley Ryan AbilityLab + Advocate Illinois Masonic palliative + ICU floors, plus Drake Reform, Donnellan Family, Lakeside, Wojciechowski, Cumberland Chapels. 2 PM CT cutoff.
Local floristsCompare pricesToday by 6 PM
Bestsellers
Today's top picks in Chicago.
Meet the florists
Chicago's top-rated studios.
Every order goes to a real studio — hand-arranged, never warehoused. Each carries their own catalog, style, and signature designs.
How it works
Why Chicago florists, not a warehouse.
01
Pick a Chicago florist
Compare ratings, prices, and same-day cutoff times across all 31 studios. The closest verified shop to your recipient gets surfaced first.
02
Choose your bouquet
Real product photos, real prices — no warehouse markup, no surprise fees. The florist hand-arranges in-house from their own stems.
03
Same-day delivery
Order before 2PM CT and the studio's own driver delivers the same business day. Most orders land within 3 hours.
Recent Chicago sympathy deliveries
What customers say.
“Lost my mother. Chicagosmarcel Florist handled a standing spray at Donnellan Family Funeral Services (Lincoln Park) for the 11 AM Sunday Catholic service. White Holland-import roses + premium chrysanthemum + dendrobium-orchid + dusty miller, $345. The chapel director called me to confirm table-display position. Studio delivered before family arrived for the priest's pre-service. Chicagosmarcel's 864 reviews are the gold standard — they know Donnellan's protocols cold.”
“Sent sympathy flowers to a coworker whose father passed at Northwestern Memorial palliative. Lasalle Flowers coordinated with the floor's nursing coordinator + chaplaincy. Plant arrangement (peace lily + anthurium) in ceramic vessel arrived in his room the same afternoon. The studio knows Northwestern Memorial protocol cold — lily-free + low-pollen + scent-free for palliative floors. My coworker texted me that it was the only physical sign of care during 72 hours of family chaos.”
“Out-of-state sympathy for my aunt's funeral at Drake & Son Pankow Reform Chapel (Skokie — premier Reform Jewish). Placed the order from NYC at 8 PM the night before the 10 AM service. Buncheschicago had the casket spray + 2 standing sprays at the chapel by 8 AM. Coordinated with my cousin on tone (white + cream + dendrobium-orchid + cymbidium per my aunt's request). Drake & Son's Reform Jewish protocol is exacting; Buncheschicago understands the chapel + Pankow + Skokie Jewish community workflow.”
About Chicago sympathy
How Chicago sends sympathy flowers.
Chicago sympathy buyers usually work in a 24-72 hour window — the call comes after a Lincoln Park colleague's parent passes at Northwestern Memorial, a Wicker Park family member at Rush University Medical, a Lake View grandmother in palliative at Advocate Illinois Masonic. Chicago's premier funeral chapels each have specific protocols the studios know: **Donnellan Family Funeral Services** (Lincoln Park + Skokie + Andersonville + Niles — premier Catholic + Irish + non-denominational), **Lakeside Funeral Home** (Lincoln Park — premier brownstone-belt Catholic + non-denominational), **Drake & Son Funeral Home** + **Drake Funeral Home — Pankow Reform Chapel** (Niles + Skokie — premier Reform + Conservative Jewish), **Wojciechowski Funeral Home** (Chicago + Park Ridge — premier Polish-American Catholic, Chicago has one of largest Polish-American populations outside Poland), **Smith-Corcoran Funeral Home** (Lakeview + Park Ridge), **Cumberland Chapels** (Norridge), **Lake Funeral Home** (Wicker Park + Logan Square), **Beverly Ridge Funeral Home** (Beverly + Beverly View), **Owens Funeral Home** + **Carter Funeral Chapel** (South Side Black community), **A.A. Rayner & Sons** (South Side Black community premier), **Aniel & Sons Funeral Home** + **Magaña Funeral Home** (Pilsen + Little Village Latin American Catholic), **Mausoleum & Crypts at Mt. Carmel + Resurrection + Bohemian National + Oak Woods + Rosehill + Graceland + Forest Home + Maryhill + St. Boniface** cemeteries cover graveside services. **Chicagosmarcel Florist** + **Lasalle Flowers** + **Secret Garden Flower** + **Buncheschicago** are the four primary Chicago premier-chapel-protocol-trained anchors.
Pricing on Chicago sympathy work runs distinctly different from birthday/anniversary tiers — standing sprays + easel arrangements $145-285, casket sprays $245-595 (Drake & Son + Donnellan Family + Lakeside premium tier sees $400+ designs regularly), sympathy hand-tied bouquets $74.95-185 (to the bereaved family home, hospital ICU floor, shiva home), plant arrangements $89-285 (peace lily + anthurium + premium orchid + dish garden — preferred for Jewish + Greek Orthodox + Vietnamese-Catholic + Polish Catholic + Hindu + Sikh + Buddhist traditions). Chicago's cultural diversity shows at full scale — the studios handle Reform + Conservative + Modern Orthodox Jewish (the Drake & Son + Pankow Reform Chapel + Skokie Jewish corridor), Polish-American Catholic (Wojciechowski + the Chicago Polonia community), Greek + Russian + Coptic + Ukrainian Orthodox, Catholic + Latin American Catholic + Italian-Catholic + Filipino-Catholic, Black community (A.A. Rayner & Sons + Owens + Carter + Burr Oak cemeteries), Polish + Lithuanian Catholic, Vietnamese-Catholic + Buddhist (Argyle + Albany Park), Korean-Christian + Korean-Buddhist, Hindu + Sikh (West Ridge + Devon Avenue South Asian corridor), Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist sympathy traditions.
Chicago sympathy drop routes
Hospitals, offices, hotels we cover for sympathy.
Donnellan Family + Lakeside (Catholic + non-denominational brownstone-belt)
Donnellan (Lincoln Park + Skokie + Andersonville + Niles — premier Catholic + Irish), Lakeside (Lincoln Park brownstone-belt) — Chicagosmarcel + Buncheschicago + Secret Garden protocols
Drake & Son + Pankow Reform Chapel (Reform + Conservative Jewish)
Drake & Son + Drake Funeral Home — Pankow Reform Chapel (Niles + Skokie) — premier Reform + Conservative Jewish corridor; plant arrangements + sympathy gift baskets to shiva home are appropriate
Wojciechowski + Smith-Corcoran + Cumberland (Polish-American Catholic + Catholic)
Wojciechowski (Chicago Polonia — Polish-American Catholic premier), Smith-Corcoran + Cumberland Chapels — Chicago Polish + Catholic protocols
Northwestern Memorial + Lurie Children's + Shirley Ryan AbilityLab + Prentice + Lurie Cancer
Northwestern (US News top-10), Lurie (top-10 US pediatric), Shirley Ryan (world #1 rehab), Prentice Women's + Lurie Cancer — daily floor-aware routes by Chicagosmarcel + Lasalle Flowers
Advocate Illinois Masonic + AMITA + Swedish Covenant + Stroger + UChicago + Rush + Loyola
Advocate Illinois Masonic (Lakeview), AMITA Saints Mary + St. Joseph + Swedish Covenant (Lincoln Park edge + Lincoln Square), Stroger Cook County Level 1 trauma, UChicago Medical (Hyde Park), Rush (Near West Side), Loyola (Maywood)
Chicago multi-faith + multi-cultural sympathy
Jewish (Reform/Conservative/Modern Orthodox), Polish-American Catholic, Catholic + Italian + Latin, Greek/Russian/Coptic/Ukrainian Orthodox, Black community (A.A. Rayner + Owens + Carter), Vietnamese-Catholic + Buddhist (Argyle), Korean, Hindu/Sikh (Devon Avenue), Muslim — tradition-aware protocols
FAQ
Quick answers.
Other Chicago occasions
More moments we deliver in Chicago.
Sympathy flowers in other cities
Sending sympathy elsewhere?
Milwaukee, WI
From $69.95
Minneapolis, MN
From $74.95
Detroit, MI
From $64.95
New York, NY
From $89.95
Los Angeles, CA
From $84.95
Miami, FL
From $79.95
Houston, TX
From $59.95
Atlanta, GA
From $69.95
Sending sympathy elsewhere? We have dedicated chapel-protocol-trained sympathy networks in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, NYC, LA, Miami, Houston, Atlanta — each with funeral home + hospital floor + cultural-tradition protocols specific to that city.