Chicago Helicopter Experience

• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedMarch 24, 2020
• address1339 S Wood St, Chicago 60608
• cuisineLiquor

Is Chicago Helicopter Experience clean?

Chicago Helicopter Experience is currently Fail from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 24, 2020. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Chicago Helicopter Experience?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 24, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcritical
  Management, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting • 2-102.14(O) OBSERVED NO EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICY ON SITE. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-010.
• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • 2-501.11 OBSERVED NO WRITTEN PROCEDURE NOR ADEQUATE SUPPLIES ON SITE TO PROPERLY RESPOND TO VOMIT AND DIARRHEA EVENTS THAT CAN POTENTIALLY OCCUR INSIDE OF THE FACILITY. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-005.
• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • 5-203.11 OBSERVED A PORTABLE HANDSINK ON SITE. ALSO, NO VARIANCE LETTER FROM DEPT. OF BUILDINGS OR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THIS PHYSICAL ADDRESS OF 1339 S WOOD. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE VARIANCE LETTERS OR CONNECT WITH HOT AND COLD RUNING WATER UNDER CITY PRESSURE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-030(C).
• ⚠️Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • 5-501.15 OBSERVED OUTSIDE DUMPSTER WITH OVERFLOWING GARBAGE,LIDS NOT TIGHT FITTING AND THE DUMPSTER AREA GROUND NOT MAINTAINED. INSTRUCTED TO MAINTAIN THE OUTSIDE DUMPSTER AREA. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-020(B).
  Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • 5-501.15 OBSERVED OUTSIDE DUMPSTER WITH OVERFLOWING GARBAGE,LIDS NOT TIGHT FITTING AND THE DUMPSTER AREA GROUND NOT MAINTAINED. INSTRUCTED TO MAINTAIN THE OUTSIDE DUMPSTER AREA. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-020(B).

When was Chicago Helicopter Experience last inspected?

Chicago Helicopter Experience has 1 inspection on record going back to March 24, 2020.

Chicago Helicopter Experience vs Lower West Side

Lower West Side runs 68% clean across 1,153 tracked restaurants — 775 clean, 162 mid, 205 cooked.

Against the 1,153 spots Cooked tracks in Lower West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 13% of them.

Other spots in Lower West Side

• ✕ Chicago Helicopter Experience
  cooked · March 24, 2020
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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 March 24, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.