Safety · Updated for 2026 You smell gas in your Chicago home and three phone numbers compete in your head: 911, the gas company, a plumber somebody recommended. Call them in the wrong order and you waste the minutes that matter most — or spend days waiting on the wrong trade for the job. Here’s…
Appliances · Updated for 2026 New range or dryer arrives, the delivery crew wheels it in, looks at your gas connection — and refuses to hook it up. Now there’s a brand-new appliance sitting disconnected in your Chicago kitchen and a crew that just says “call a plumber” on their way out. Frustrating, yes. But…
Multi-Unit · Updated for 2026 The two- and three-flat is Chicago’s signature building — and its basement holds Chicago’s signature gas mystery: a bank of meters, decades of undocumented work, and not one label telling anybody which line feeds which floor. Whether you own one, live in one, or are about to buy one, this…
Seasonal · Updated for 2026 Ask any Chicago gas fitter which week of the year their phone melts down and you’ll get the same answer: the first real deep freeze in January. It’s not coincidence and it’s not bad luck — it’s physics working on a century-old piping stock. Here’s exactly why leaks spike when…
Safety · Updated for 2026 Every Chicago winter, two completely different dangers get mixed up in the same panicked phone calls: a natural gas leak and carbon monoxide. One announces itself with a smell; the other is invisible and odorless. One means “get out and call the utility”; the other means “get out and get…
Rentals & Landlords · Updated for 2026 You smell gas in your apartment, you report it, and then the question that decides everything: whose problem — and whose bill — is this? After years of gas calls in Chicago rentals, here’s the complete responsibility map: what Peoples Gas fixes for free, what your landlord is…
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