At 46, John Baethke is a young man but a bit of an old soul when it comes to plumbing. He is, after all, the third generation in his family’s Midwest business. And even though he inherited the name shared by his father and grandfather, he is well on his way to making his own name John Baethke & Son Plumbing in Chicago.
“I never really thought plumbing was the way I was going to go, even though I helped my dad out in summers and on weekends,” he says. But now, “I love plumbing,” he admits. “I didn’t know that
