Nicor Gas Reviews

Illinois

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Nicor Gas delivers natural gas to residential and business customers in northern Illinois. Operating since 1954, its services encompass gas supply, pipeline maintenance and energy efficiency programs.

Pros
  • Responsive customer service
  • Clear communication on issues
Cons
  • Frequent billing discrepancies
  • Long wait times for service

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    Reviewed March 17, 2026

    Had a tech named Antonio come out to check for a gas leak in my basement. He found the small leak and fixed it. From the time I called to the time it was fixed was under an hour and was all done for free!

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    Reviewed Dec. 27, 2025

    Your truck driver followed me for a while and then took a quick overhead in front of my car. I needed to put a brake on my car otherwise your truck driver would have ran into me and caused a big bill for your great Nicor gas company.

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      Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedStaff

      Reviewed Dec. 12, 2025

      The Supervisors, the Bankruptcy Department all are very Rude, INCONSIDERATE, NO CARE or Consern for people or their situation, disability. Etc. I contacted the BK dept and supervisor at around 3:00pm I faced over all my documents to have my services restored because any and everybody knows the weather in Illinois is freezing and can be deathly. Long story short the supervisor told me, "You shouldn’t have waited too late and it’s Nothing I or Nicor company can do to accommodate you and your family."

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      Wendy increased rating by 4 stars.
      Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed
      After a positive interaction with Nicor Gas, Wendy increased their star rating on Oct. 30, 2025.

      Updated review: Oct. 30, 2025

      My initial review for Nicor was a 1 due to lower level customer service being atrocious. However with many phone calls and emails, we were able to reach upper level and they were amazing and helped RIGHT away!!!

      Original Review: Oct. 29, 2025

      Horrible customer service!!!! Was disconnected over a $217 bill and now I have to wait 4 days to be reconnected. 4 days with no heat, no cooking, no hot water to take a shower. They don’t care at all. Insane!

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      Customer ServiceStaffBilling

      Reviewed June 10, 2025

      Caitlin ** was the best person to help me at Nicor to get my account set up with auto payment and to get this special account paid. She was a please to work with. Very friendly and professional. I truly look forward to reaching out to her in the future! Cailtin knows her job very well and is extremely excellent in customer service! Thanks again!

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      Customer ServiceTechPunctuality & SpeedRefunds & PayoutsMaintenanceBillingRates

      Reviewed Feb. 13, 2025

      Had a gas leak and they were very quick to come out and shut off my gas. Turning it back on was another issue. Long story, will try to make it short. Happened on Friday, unfortunate for me. Was told I have a pressure meter and the "specially trained crew" that turns pressure meters back on does not work weekends! Made an appointment for Monday between 10 and noon and was told I had to have a contractor there or they wouldn't turn the meter on. He arrived at 9:45 am in anticipation for their arrival; still had not come at 2. Spoke with 4 different people; 1st one said I had no appointment; 2nd said I had an "all day" appointment; 3rd said no appointment and very rude; 4th finally said they'd be here in 20 minutes.

      40 minutes later they showed and told the contractor no pressure test was needed and left. He called them back as gas would not come on because they also shut it off in my unit which was found after another tech came out and also said no pressure test was needed after making sure the meter was working. Contractor got it back up and running and wrote all the issues on the bill so I could try to get reimbursed. Being he sat here waiting for about 7 hours, rather than bill me the hourly rate which would have been thousands, they billed for the "pressure test" which came to $789.00.

      Nicor won't refund me any part of my $789.00 which was only incurred by their incompetence. Had me speaking with a man in GEORGIA for this incident which happened in Illinois??!! He said he couldn't find any tech that said no pressure test was needed and unfortunately for me the contractor that had come out that day no longer works for the company I had hired. So they have no way to verify what happened. I guess no one writes notes anymore when their customers have an issue. And since when does a company this size have a crew that "doesn't do weekends!!!!" Very poorly managed, Nicor is horrible and has some rude, ignorant people employed there. If they didn't monopolize this commodity I'd go elsewhere for service. If you have a gas leak, call a plumber!!!! That's what you'll have to do no matter what.

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      Customer ServicePunctuality & Speed

      Reviewed Jan. 24, 2025

      Terrible customer service. I am having a meter upgrade for a commercial building done, the project managers are unresponsive, they came once unprepared to do the job then left for no reason, and then expected me to call them to schedule when to do the job. Just get the job done, should have been done months ago. At least respond to the customer who is reaching out trying to figure out when something will be done, I have attempted to contact via multiple lines of communication. Also, their phone service sucks, there is a terrible crackling noise the entire time you're on the phone with them.

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      Customer ServicePunctuality & SpeedBilling

      Reviewed Oct. 25, 2024

      Bad experience! What my fault is that I skipped payment ($76only) and my service was shot off. Problem is I have a 2year old and when I called paid and fixed problem over the phone they said they won't come until 2 days later so I'm without hot water, stove and etc for few days. Nicor service sucks! Few years back something like that happened, I paid service, was back FEW MINUTES LATER.

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      Customer ServiceOnline & AppBilling

      Reviewed Sept. 24, 2024

      Unbelievably convoluted method of setting up the payments with them. Their website takes about 30 sec minimum between opening up pages. I get ErrorPage errors non-stop. I have spent about 2 hours so far trying to set up my payments and still have not ended up anywhere. Now I have to spend probably another 30min-1hr on the phone.

      Companies like Nicor usually do whatever they want, since improving customer service doesn't directly yield better earnings. Still, this is an embarrassing process and website setup overall for the company. Please try to do better with your website, servers, and payment setup. I never make negative reviews but I feel like people should be aware of how bad your service is before signing up.

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      Customer ServiceStaff

      Reviewed Sept. 14, 2024

      It is always a horrible experience with your automated system. The system always hangs up on you and you never get to where you need to be and sometimes it feels like you’re yelling at the phone because it doesn’t understand you. This is my biggest complain dealing with this company, it’s very hard to actually talk to a person.

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      Nicor Gas Company Information

      Company Name:
      Nicor Gas
      Formerly Named:
      Nicor
      Website:
      www.nicorgas.com