Chicago's Home Of Chicken & Waffles

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 23, 2026 →
• address3947 S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Chicago 60653

Is Chicago's Home Of Chicken & Waffles clean?

Chicago's Home Of Chicken & Waffles is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 23, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Chicago's Home Of Chicken & Waffles?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  Wiping Cloths: Properly Used & Stored

When was Chicago's Home Of Chicken & Waffles last inspected?

Chicago's Home Of Chicken & Waffles has 16 inspections on record going back to October 25, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 3 of these 12 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

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Chicago's Home Of Chicken & Waffles vs Grand Boulevard

Grand Boulevard runs 81% clean across 124 tracked restaurants — 98 clean, 20 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 124 spots Cooked tracks in Grand Boulevard, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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.

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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 October 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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