Fare

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 20, 2025
• address71 S Wacker Dr, Chicago 60606

Is Fare clean?

Fare is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 20, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Fare?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • FOUND INCOMPLETE VOMIT SPILL KIT.(MISSING ITEMS GOGGLES, SPRAY DISINFECTANT,ETC.) PRIORITY FOUNDATION.CITATION ISSUED.7-38-005.MUST PROVIDE.
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • FOUND FOOD CONTAINERS NOT STORED PROPERLY ON SHELVING UNITS.MUST PROVIDE.
  Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • FOUND FOOD CONTAINERS NOT STORED PROPERLY ON SHELVING UNITS.MUST PROVIDE.

When was Fare last inspected?

Fare has 3 inspections on record going back to August 12, 2022.

Fare vs Loop

Loop runs 44% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 1,566 clean, 332 mid, 1,687 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 50% 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 October 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.