Don's Hamburgers

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 14, 2026
• address1837 S Western Ave, Chicago 60608

Is Don's Hamburgers clean?

Don's Hamburgers is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Don's Hamburgers?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • FRONT PREP AREA HANDSINK SLOW DRAINING IN NEED OF REPAIR INSTRUCTED TO CORRECT AND MAINTAIN

When was Don's Hamburgers last inspected?

Don's Hamburgers has 21 inspections on record going back to January 20, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Don's Hamburgers 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 34% 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 January 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.