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How does Alan's Plumbing Rate? Alan's Plumbing received 24 consumer ratings from Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports subscribers. Subscribe & Save » CHECKBOOK provides: Award winning articles and ratings reports compiled from more than 211,000 Chicago area consumer ratings by Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports magazine subscribers who have used these companies and professionals. Thousands of hours of undercover price shopping. Review of complaints received by local consumer agencies such as Better Business Bureau (BBB) and attorney general offices. In-depth research. No advertising. No ballot-box stuffing. Nonprofit Read CHECKBOOK's free advice on choosing a local plumber.		Alan's Plumbing 10050 Meadow Ln Des Plaines, IL Phone: 847-724-6422 "[Consumers’ CHECKBOOK] takes no advertising, so there's no tainting the ratings." "Whomever I call, it will be a firm that gets two checkmarks from Consumers’ CHECKBOOK. "
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