Act NOW to STOP the Mount Prospect Crematorium ---

Matz Funeral Home has submitted an application to the City of Mount Prospect to build a CREMATORIUM at 410 E Rand Road. A Public Hearing before the Mount Prospect Planning & Zoning Commission will be held on January 26, 2023 at Mount Prospect Village Hall, 50 S. Emerson Street, Mount Prospect, IL.

This is a residential neighborhood: Matz Funeral Home is surrounded by multi-family townhomes and single-family homes right behind the fence. Gregory Park is also right across the street while Hill Street park is a block away. 

Please be aware!

Your and your family’s health is at risk! Crematoriums produce dangerous mercury fumes that are linked to many health issues!

Your property value and local business value is going to decrease! People will try staying stay away from the crematorium chimney black smoke and fumes! 

Your backyard view will now be the crematorium chimney releasing its black smoke of burning people’s bodies – terrible experience for a family dinner! You will experience crematorium terrible smell every time the wind blows in your direction.

We do not want a crematorium – blowing the ashes of dead bodies a mere 50 feet from our homes. 

We want to prevent the neighborhood from having to suffer toxic air pollution.

This is a health safety problem - there is strong scientific evidence that crematoriums produce dangerous pollutants which are linked to serious health problems, especially for children. These pollutants include mercury, dioxins, dibenzofurans, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and hydrogen chloride. 

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated that exposure to mercury/metallic vapor on the human body, even in chronic low doses, can cause all sorts of negative effects in adults, children and animals, such as birth defects in babies, neurological defects, damage or destruction of nerve tissue, and it can permanently damage or fatally injure the brain and kidneys, or cause death. Other data supports these adverse health effects related to mercury emissions. The EPA has emphasized that ANY exposure to Mercury is harmful, and should be avoided and impact on the environment should and must be mitigated. 

This is an economic justice problem - crematoriums negatively impact real estate values. According to Realtor.com research, proximity to a crematorium may reduce property value up to 6.5% and shrink the market, as many ethnic groups would not consider buying a property in its close proximity, meaning the real estate would have to stay on the market for a longer time.

A crematorium is an industrial operation, and it has no place in a quiet residential community.

Please sign this petition to oppose building a crematorium in our backyards!

We also encourage you to attend the hearing on Jan 26 and raise your voice against this project. This is our neighborhood; nobody will take care of it if we don’t.

Learn more about other community experience with fighting against a crematorium in residential neighborhood at https://no2crematory.wordpress.com