Behind The Curtain

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 18, 2025 →
• address15 W Illinois St, Chicago 60654

Is Behind The Curtain clean?

Behind The Curtain is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 18, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Behind The Curtain?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training

When was Behind The Curtain last inspected?

Behind The Curtain has 28 inspections on record going back to February 28, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Behind The Curtain vs Near North Side

Near North Side runs 85% clean across 1,813 tracked restaurants — 1,534 clean, 250 mid, 18 cooked.

Against the 1,813 spots Cooked tracks in Near North Side, this one comes out cleaner than 17% of them.

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How Chicago grades 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.

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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.

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated November 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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