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Little Italy

Taylor Street is one of Chicago’s great neighborhood streets — a stretch of restaurants, bakeries, and community institutions that has maintained its Italian-American identity through urban renewal, university expansion, and everything else the 20th century threw at it. The historic St. Basil Greek Orthodox Church and the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame anchor the neighborhood’s cultural identity, while the University of Illinois at Chicago campus presses in from the north. The homes and storefronts along Taylor date from the 1880s and beyond — some of the oldest surviving residential construction in Chicago.


In buildings this old, plumbing is genuinely vintage. Lead supply lines, original cast iron drains, and clay sewer laterals are not historical curiosities here — they’re the infrastructure that’s still in service. For Taylor Street’s restaurants, grease trap maintenance and commercial drain cleaning are ongoing necessities. For homeowners, a sewer camera inspection and honest conversation is where we always start. Then we fix it right — lead pipe removal, trenchless repair, or full repiping.


When you call us about a backed-up or slow sewer, our first move is to rod and clear the line — get things flowing and your home back to normal. Sewer rodding starts at just $99 when there’s an outside cleanout to rod from, a price we’ve held since we opened in 2006. While nearly everything else has gotten more expensive, our starting price hasn’t moved in nearly twenty years. Once the line is open, we follow up with a sewer video inspection to see exactly what caused the problem — tree roots, a crack, a pipe belly — and give you an honest picture of what, if anything, needs to happen next.


We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year — including holidays — so when something goes wrong at 2 a.m., you can reach us. We offer free estimates during regular business hours with no trip charge to come out. Most companies charge just to show up; we don’t. When a sewer line needs more than rodding, The Scottish Plumber is one of the most experienced trenchless sewer repair companies in Chicagoland — doing this since 2006 with thousands of repairs completed across the area. For older homes especially, pipe stent repair is worth knowing about: a precise, minimally invasive fix that spares your floors, walls, and landscaping.


Our Little Italy Plumbing Services