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Boxcar Betty's
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 24, 2025
- address500 W Madison St, Chicago 60661
Is Boxcar Betty's clean?
Boxcar Betty's is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 24, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Boxcar Betty's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🏷️food improperly labeledFood Properly Labeled; Original Container • Bulk food container ( salt ) not labeled, Instructed to label and maintain.
When was Boxcar Betty's last inspected?
Boxcar Betty's has 12 inspections on record going back to May 17, 2018.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 23, 2026 | closed by the city | |
| April 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 23, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 16, 2023 | Fail | |
| July 6, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 5, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 9, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 19, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 18, 2020 | Fail | |
| June 6, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 17, 2018 | Pass |
Boxcar Betty's vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 April 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.