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Big Al's Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 7, 2025
- address5333 S Kedzie Ave, Chicago 60632
Is Big Al's Restaurant clean?
Big Al's Restaurant is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Big Al's Restaurant?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on August 7, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Big Al's Restaurant last inspected?
Big Al's Restaurant has 16 inspections on record going back to December 18, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 7, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 23, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 29, 2021 | Pass | |
| June 18, 2021 | Fail | |
| June 17, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 22, 2018 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2018 | Fail | |
| February 8, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| May 12, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Big Al's Restaurant vs Gage Park
Gage Park runs 71% clean across 393 tracked restaurants — 278 clean, 70 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 393 spots Cooked tracks in Gage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 August 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.