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Duke's
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 12, 2025
- address5659 N Central Ave, Chicago 60646
Is Duke's clean?
Duke's is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 12, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Duke's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED WATER LINE FROM FRONT SERVICE AREA DRINK MACHINE IN POOR REPAIR, LEAKING CLEAN WATER ONTO FLOOR. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE FRONT SERVICE AREA DRINK MACHINE WATER LINE TO ELIMINATE LEAK AND INSTRUCTED TO MAINTAIN ALL PLUMBING FIXTURES IN GOOD REPAIR.
When was Duke's last inspected?
Duke's has 25 inspections on record going back to October 21, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 12, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 9, 2025 | — | |
| September 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 30, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| December 20, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 5, 2021 | Pass |
Duke's vs Jefferson Park
Jefferson Park runs 69% clean across 272 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 47 mid, 37 cooked.
Against the 272 spots Cooked tracks in Jefferson Park, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 December 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.