Cooked?
City News
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 10, 2023
- address4018 N Cicero, Chicago 60641
Is City News clean?
City News is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 10, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at City News?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 10, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedFood-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • OBSERVED A SLIGHT DEBRIS ACCUMULATION ENCRUSTED ON THE INTERIOR OF THE ICE MACHINE.MUST REMOVE DEBRIS, DETAIL CLEAN INSIDE ICE MACHINE/HAVE SERVICED AND MAINTAIN ICE MACHINE AT ALL TIMES.
- 🏷️food improperly labeledFood Properly Labeled; Original Container • OBSERVED PREPACKAGED FOODS NOT PROPERLY LABELED.INSTRUCTED TO LABEL ALL PREPACKAGED FOODS WITH COMMON NAME, NAME OF MANUFACTURER AND ADDRESS, INGREDIENTS, NET CONTENTS, ETC. AND MAINTAIN.
When was City News last inspected?
City News has 10 inspections on record going back to June 25, 2012.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 10, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 9, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 23, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 24, 2017 | Pass | |
| October 24, 2016 | Pass | |
| October 2, 2015 | Pass | |
| July 17, 2014 | Pass | |
| November 19, 2013 | Pass | |
| June 25, 2012 | Pass |
City News vs Portage Park
Portage Park runs 39% clean across 715 tracked restaurants — 275 clean, 73 mid, 363 cooked.
Against the 715 spots Cooked tracks in Portage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 63% of them.
Other spots in Portage Park
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 October 10, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.