Chop Shop/1St Ward

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 10, 2025 →
• address2033-2035 W North Ave, Chicago 60647

Is Chop Shop/1St Ward clean?

Chop Shop/1St Ward is currently Fail from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 10, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Chop Shop/1St Ward?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  Food-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized
• 🧪toxic chemicals mishandled
  Compliance With Variance/Specialized Process/Haccp
• ⚠️Variance Obtained For Specialized Processing Methods
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• ⚠️Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained

When was Chop Shop/1St Ward last inspected?

Chop Shop/1St Ward has 23 inspections on record going back to September 26, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Chop Shop/1St Ward vs West Town

West Town runs 77% clean across 1,250 tracked restaurants — 958 clean, 251 mid, 29 cooked.

Against the 1,250 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

Other spots in West Town

• ✓ Chop Shop/1St Ward
  clean · October 2, 2013
• ✓ M Vie
  clean · May 14, 2013
• ✓! Tamalli Space Charros
  mid · June 22, 2019
• ✓ Epic Spices
  clean · April 19, 2013
• ✓! Bar Biscay
  cooked · August 7, 2019
• ✓ Unite Grill
  clean · November 5, 2013

See every restaurant inspection in West Town →

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 December 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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