Best Electricians in Illinois

We bought a new dryer that was causing an electrical fuse to blow whenever we used it. I called PB Electrical Services and they came right away, diagnosed the issue as needing a new circuit breaker, and fixed it same day. Great service and I'll definitely use them for future electrical needs!

Tony was great. He got my message at noon on Saturday after thanksgiving and by 3:00 we were done with all repairs complete. Highly recommended.

We just had to have our breaker box replaced and several electrical issues fixed at our home.

We got 3 estimates and Excel Electrical Technologies out of Orland Park was very reasonable.

Their techs that came out were extremely knowledgeable. They were very respectful and cleaned up after their work.

We can't say enough about Excel Electrical

I needed a electrician to install power outlets for my newly plumbed laundry hookup in my loft.  I happened to stumble upon Montoya Electric Co. in Yelp.  Uriel and his father showed up on time as scheduled and did amazing work. Conduit runs were neat and straight and they didn't butcher my walls with unnecessary holes.  They also cleaned up after they were finished.  I will definitely use Montoya Electric Co. in the future and I wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone looking for great electricians.

Looking for a reputable, kind, timely, professional, competitive electrician? Dion is your man.

He arrived on time and was able to complete (read: finish) a job in THREE DAYS that another less-than-savory electrician had delayed for over 6 weeks!!!

He is friendly, communicative and gets the job done.  He even made suggestions to put nice finishing touches we hadn't considered.  

We've already referred him to our neighbors - who equally were happy with their experience.  

5 Stars!

The epitome of customer service.  Frank Perlongo is good, no great, and performs work as though it was being performed on his own home.

After reading some great reviews I had high hopes for John and his troubleshooting. Unfortunately, my experience left much to be desired. After calling John on the phone we made an appointment for him to meet me at my home on a Tuesday evening (which he never showed up to). Thinking that maybe I had understood incorrectly I called John and asked if I was mistaken. He proceeded to state that he thought we had scheduled for the following date. I gave John the benefit of the doubt and rescheduled for the following day at 6 pm. At 7 pm that day he texted to say he was coming from across the city and was on his way. When he did arrive he proceeded to offer zero solutions to my electrical questions and jetted out of the house having complained that he had just spent 2 hours in traffic which is irrelevant when you are a business owner who seeks business throughout the city of Chicago which does span across quite a distance. I rarely rate people so poorly, but this time around I felt compelled to do so based on the fact that he pretty much wasted our time to two days straight.

We were very impressed with Malek Heating & Cooling. Our old air conditioning system gave out on one of the hottest days this summer.  Our repairman said that it was not worth repairing, since it was over 26 years old. We decided to get four estimates. We called Malek Heating & Cooling in the morning and asked for an estimate to replace both our furnace and air conditioner, and a technician came out the very same day. He arrived on time and was very knowlegeable. The salesperson in the office was also very impressive. We called a couple of times with questions and she got the information right back to us. She also emailed information to us. We decided, in the end, to use another vendor, but our experience and impression of Malek's technician, salesperson, and overall responsiveness to our calls was very favorable. We thought the customer service was prompt, responsive, and very helpful, We were impressed with both the great customer service and good products that are offered.

I'm really not understanding why my experience was a complete 180 from other reviewers, but calling it a nightmare would be a supreme understatement.

I needed a dedicated outlet for the sump pump in the crawlspace because you cannot use an extension cord for it in my town. I called Vlad, believing I had called him before and he never got back to me (this was my error). He was very polite and came immediately to look at the work needing to be done. So far, so good! He quoted me a very fair price and said he could do the job the same day - even better! I made sure I said that the sump pump needed to be plugged directly into an outlet. He said he needed to go to the hardware store to pick up what he needed, after 2 hours I called him to make sure he was coming back. He replied yes, he would be here shortly.

And this is where my nightmare began.

A couple hours later, I notice that it had gotten very warm in my house. AC is usually set at 72 and when I checked the thermostat, it read 80. I politely asked Vlad if he did something to the AC, and his reply was too many wires and went back to what he was doing. That really wasn't an answer but I went back in the house and turned some fans on, sure that he would fix whatever he did to cause the AC not to work.

As the hours progressed (he started work at about noon). the AC still wasn't working and the WiFi thermostat was turning off and on and re-setting every few minutes. He was messing with the breaker box for a REALLY long time and would NOT answer my questions but rather just shrugging his shoulders and ignoring me. You have no idea how frustrating that was.

At about 6:30 (still no AC, mind you), he comes into the house and asks me for an extension cord. I ask him what for. He replies that he needs one to plug the sump pump into the outlet. Excuse me, what??? The whole reason I needed a contractor was because I needed the sump pump to plug directly into an outlet! He tells me that he thought it was better to put the outlet close to the crawlspace door and that's why he needed an extension cord, because the outlet was too far away from the sump pump cord. I tell him that he did not do the job correctly and that I needed the outlet close enough to the sump pump so that the cord could be plugged directly into it AND he still needed to address my AC not working.

He insisted that he did nothing to the AC wiring and that it must be an issue with the AC or the thermostat. Both are fairly new and it was highly unlikely that it was not his fault. He insisted that I needed to call an AC person to come look at what the problem could be and repeatedly insisted that he did nothing wrong.

At 7:30 he comes back into the house and simply says, Money, give me money. My husband came home from work at this point and told Vlad that he must have done something wrong, crossed a wire, something, because there was no way this was not his fault. We wrote him a check for less than what we agreed on, because come on! He got a bit ugly at that but finally left.

We had no choice but to call the AC company that services our furnace/AC. That was a $155 service call. While we were waiting for them to show, I went to do a load of laundry only to find that there was no power running to the washer and dryer. My husband went to the breaker box and found that the washer and dryer were now connected to the furnace breaker, so YES ABSOLUTELY he caused the problem because the washer and dryer were previously on their own (correct) breaker.

So, the AC company could not help because it was not an HVAC issue, and I then had to find an emergency electrical company that had a $195 service call fee. No way in hell did I trust Vlad to come back and fix what he messed up. Although the electrical company came Saturday morning, the repair was so extensive (and required an HVAC tech along), the repair could not be done until Monday. We spent 72 hours without AC.

Attached you will see the invoices, showing that yes, it was very much Vlad's fault. We have had to pay over $1300 to fix what he did.

Installing a new outlet on a dedicated circuit breaker is basically Electrician 101.

In addition to this review, I will be filing a complaint with the BBB and seriously considering pursuing legal action - something I have never done in all my many years of being a consumer/customer.

I absolutely love Johny! I recently purchased my first home and I reached out to this company after another company was 5 hours late to my consultation. Volts & Watts is now my one and only option. Not only was I given a same day consultation (and on time) Johny was able to install the vision I was looking for in little to no time at a better rate than what I was originally going to pay. My lights are perfect and give my home such a beautiful modern new look.

Our Generac whole house generator failed to come on during a multi-hour power outage on a Sunday morning. The Generac support line recommended AL Electric as the closest dealer. Andrey picked up the phone after two rings, came out within an hour, and had our generator running within 2 minutes. (The generator had an error code that required dealer service.) His charge for an emergency visit on a Sunday morning was very reasonable and he will be coming back later in the week to do full maintenance on the unit. As the Generac support person said, you need to have a dealer do maintenance on it yearly so AL Electric will be our regular service. Andrey is also very friendly and knowledgeable.

ABS was recommended by a residential lighting retailer.  I emailed them on a Saturday, and got a response the next day!  We scheduled an appointment for an estimate, then received a quote a few days later.  The ABS team came out promptly at the agreed upon time, and were extremely professional.  They installed a medium-sized chandelier in a vaulted foyer in about an hour.   Highly recommended!!  Bryan Rice and the ABS team will not disappoint.

We recently hired Nick to install recessed lighting throughout our home. We were so pleased with his work that we expanded the scope of our project and had him also install chandeliers, tv's, ceiling fans, light timers, outdoor lighting, etc.  Nick's work helped transform our dated house to the home we always wanted.  Nick is extremely skilled but also polite, punctual and eager to please nit-picky homeowners like myself.  Nick, thank you again for your high quality work -- we look forward to working with you again soon!

Very unprofessional and questionable business practices.  Overpriced cash grab for 2 minutes of work and less than 10 minutes total between pulling into my driveway and leaving, taking advantage of someone selling a home.

PES was asked to come essentially remove one screw and charged $175.  Robert left our home without providing a receipt and then five days later, reached back out saying he realized that more work was needed which would be an additional $775.  This was a simple job within a town he is supposedly familiar with that he was happy to do, collect payment on, and leave.  Either he was incompetent enough to not realize what needed to be done when he was standing in front of a sub panel or he was looking to further try and take advantage of us.  Regardless of which is accurate, I would never have them back in my home working on anything.

Unfortunately, their lack of professionalism does not end there but instead extends to a receipt ultimately being produced that states something to the effect of my work doesn't satisfy the inspection report.  This man was never  shown an inspection report or any other documentation for that matter.  He also proceeded to reply to another negative review posted by my wife in which he fabricated a quote to paint her in a negative light.

I have absolutely no respect for anyone who runs a business this way and even if I could give a zero star review, it would be too generous.

I am a caregiver and the people I do so for had a long standing problem in one of their two bathrooms - a warped switch and mirror light issue. I thought I could do the job. I couldn't. I actually caused the working lights in it to go out. Along comes a church friend of the man of the house who said he was an electrician and claimed he could fix it. He tried for two hours. Not only could he not do so, he caused a fan & the power in the two bedrooms & hallway to go out. I cringe, thinking we got a major problem on our hands with very limited bux to spend.

I look on Craigslist for an electrician. There's one in there that takes up several ad spaces, has a big block ad with exhaustive claims what they can do inside each of them, along with a phone number in big print. I call it. Number out of service. Ugh! Frustration sets in. Meanwhile, huge dollar signs go thru my mind, thinking the electrical box might need pulling or worse.

I decided to check Yelp for a solution (Angie's List was a pain in the butt to navigate online). I was desperate. I wanted to find someone or some firm close to Evanston. I found Sal, looked thru the first dozen reviews and saw he was 5 stars with everyone. I thought OMG, let's give him a shot. He was immediately available, told me how much he'd charge (IMO, a pittance) and said he'd be at the condo in less than half an hour. In his big hearty Hungarian (and other nationality) accent, he explained a few things I could understand (along with a few I couldn't) and made me feel like it was no big deal what he was doing, that everything that needed fixing would occur thru those particular wires on the bathroom wall and he would get it done. And he did. He showed me a bit of his wire testing, told me what wires were for what (and one that really didn't belong) and more. I told him how I found him and that I'd give him 10 stars if I could. He just continued and smiled, finishing up in roughly an hour with every single issue fixed everywhere, including those in the bathroom that were there for decades.

I will be moving downstate sometime this summer so I probably won't be calling Sal again (unless there is another electrical issue while I'm still here) but I have lots of contacts in the metro Chicago area and I wouldn't bat an eyelash recommending Sal to any of them needing an electrician. This fine older gent is second to none and if I could take him downstate with me to fix any electrical issues where I'm moving to, I would do so in a heartbeat. Absolutely fabulous experience to what I envisioned was going to be a catastrophe.

Our experience has been horrible.

It started off well and the Electricians are nice people however, management makes them come on their times only and not the time agreed or stated.  Several weeks would go by because they had bigger projects to work on and they told us they were busy and wouldn't even get something on the calendar for us....?

We finally got something on the calendar to finish off our work....the job finally got completed....We had work done to our home to update our electricity to a new breaker box.

A few weeks later we switched a couple switches to off and they wouldn't turn back on....one of these switches controlled our Thermostat in the middle of 28 degree weather....our home is an ice box....  I called early in the morning and the answer I got was we don't know when we can get someone out....we'll try ASAP once their current jobs are completed.  No expected lead time....nothing.....

The service is absolutely nuts...

Jaime got us in same-day for an issue with our 220v outlet in our laundry room. It took him all of 10 minutes to diagnose the issue and another 30 to fix it.

We will definitely be using Jaime with Shock Tech 2 for all of our electrical needs!

Don is a bit slow on the draw, and forgets to follow-up at times.  He is climbing up in his years, and I think should be about ready to retire, but despite his occasional forgettfulness, he is a great guy, down-to-earth, and knows his electrical buisness.  He is fair and guarantees his work.  I highly recommend Don Carmen Electric

Our door was forced open and the frame was damaged.  Al came over and fixed it to where you could barely tell it had been broken.  It was quick and reasonably priced.  I plan to use this company again for other projects we have.

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