Chicago Restaurant Inspection Data: Ratings, Areas & Freshness

Live report. The measurements below are calculated from Cooked’s current copy of the official Chicago Department of Public Health feed and refresh after new data is ingested.

How to read this report

One row means one operating establishment or permit in the source—not necessarily one company. A restaurant with several separately permitted counters can appear more than once, while a business the authority marks as gone is excluded. Health-department closures remain included because they are active inspection facts.

“Clean”, “mid” and “cooked” are Cooked’s comparison bands; the authority’s own result remains the source of truth. clean = Pass, mid = Pass w/ Conditions, cooked = Fail — Chicago’s official results.

Chicago Department of Public Health publishes itemized findings for this feed, but this report compares current official results rather than treating every violation as equally serious. The local-area table uses only areas with a meaningful rated sample, and the repeated-name table describes matching public names rather than claiming common ownership.

Citywide snapshot

Calculated from the official feed as stored by Cooked on October 7, 2026.

22,780 operating records are in the source snapshot; 22,494 carry a current clean, mid or cooked result.

How fresh are the records?

4,029 records (17.7%) have an inspection or rating date in the last 180 days; 7,518 (33%) are within one year. The median latest-record age is 905 days.

Where cooked records are most concentrated

This ranks only local areas with at least 20 rated records and at least one cooked result. It is a current-record comparison, not a claim about every meal or every business in the area.

Repeated public names with cooked locations

These are exact same-name groups with at least three operating locations, at least two rated locations and at least one cooked result. A shared municipal name does not prove shared ownership.