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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 grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-501.114---ALL UNUSED CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL STORED PILED IN THE REAR AND INSIDE BASEMENT STORAGE ROOMS MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE PREMISES AND ALL OTHER NEED ITEMS MUST BE ELEVATED FROM THE FLOOR.
- ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • 2-102.13---OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATES PROVIDED ON THE PREMISES. MUST SHOW PROOF OF TRAINING FOR ALL FOOD HANDLING EMPLOYEES.All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • 2-102.13---OBSERVED NO FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATES PROVIDED ON THE PREMISES. MUST SHOW PROOF OF TRAINING FOR ALL FOOD HANDLING EMPLOYEES.
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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2026 | — | |
| November 18, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 10, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 10, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| December 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 29, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 15, 2024 | — | |
| October 24, 2024 | — | |
| August 6, 2024 | — | |
| November 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 26, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 19, 2022 | Fail |
Behind The Curtain vs Near North Side
Near North Side runs 53% clean across 2,889 tracked restaurants — 1,514 clean, 253 mid, 1,113 cooked.
Against the 2,889 spots Cooked tracks in Near North Side, this one comes out cleaner than 49% 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.
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.