🌭 Chicago restaurant health inspections

Chicago Department of Public Health

22,735listed restaurants
79%clean
3,955mid
706cooked

Look up a Chicago restaurant's health inspection result before choosing where to eat. See the dated result from Chicago Department of Public Health, with published findings and available inspection history. No account needed.

Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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Latest Chicago inspection data brief 🗞️

Chicago restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-09-06: 20 downgrades. Official Chicago Department of Public Health records.

Chicago restaurant health inspection downgrades — September 7, 2026 →

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Most cooked in Chicago right now 🪳

see all 706 spots rated cooked in Chicago →

Ranked by Cooked's 0–100 comparison score, which uses the city's own result with available violation counts. Only spots inspected in the last two years are eligible, and one location per chain so the list is a picture of the city rather than of one franchise.

Just downgraded in Chicago

Their most recent inspection came back worse than the one before it.

The newest result against the one it replaced. Cities publish on their own schedule, so read the date on each row — the most recent inspection in Cooked's Chicago data is September 4, 2026.

On a clean run in Chicago ✨

Three or more consecutive inspections with nothing that dropped them below a pass — most recently confirmed first.

One spot per neighborhood and one location per chain: chains are inspected far more often than anyone else, so an unfiltered version of this list is the same three franchises ten times.

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77 neighborhoods, every one with its own inspection list — and together, every restaurant Cooked tracks in Chicago.

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Chicago health inspections, explained

How does Chicago grade restaurants?

Chicago does not use letter grades. Every inspection ends in one of three official results: Pass, Pass with Conditions, or Fail. Pass with Conditions means violations were found but corrected on the spot or under a deadline — the restaurant is open, with homework. A Fail means serious violations went uncorrected, and it usually brings a re-inspection within days. Chicago also flags “priority” violations, the ones most likely to actually make someone sick. Cooked reads Pass as clean, Pass with Conditions as mid, and Fail as cooked, and shows the itemized violations behind each result.

How many Chicago restaurants have a clean rating?

Of the 22,735 Chicago restaurants Cooked tracks, 17,799 are currently rated clean, 3,955 are mid, and 706 are cooked — about 79% of rated spots come back clean.

Where does this Chicago inspection data come from?

Directly from Chicago Department of Public Health, published as open data through Chicago Data Portal. Cooked preserves the source result and adds its own clean, mid or cooked comparison. These labels and list rankings are Cooked’s interpretation, not extra findings from the authority.

How often are Chicago restaurants inspected?

That varies by risk and by city policy, and a restaurant can be re-inspected sooner after a bad result. The most recent inspection in Cooked's Chicago data is dated September 4, 2026.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. How Cooked handles this data →

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