Blue Line

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 17, 2025 →
• address1548 N Damen Ave, Chicago 60622

Is Blue Line clean?

Blue Line is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on September 17, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Blue Line?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was Blue Line last inspected?

Blue Line has 23 inspections on record going back to October 18, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Blue Line vs West Town

West Town runs 77% clean across 1,251 tracked restaurants — 958 clean, 251 mid, 30 cooked.

Against the 1,251 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 3% of them.

Other spots in West Town

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  cooked · June 4, 2013
• ? Taste
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• ✓! Bucktown Market
  mid · April 29, 2020
• ✓ Exec U Tan Inc
  clean · May 19, 2010
• ✓ Milk & Honey Cafe
  cooked · March 4, 2025

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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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

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 September 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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