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Fire Lake
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 31, 2025
- address221 N Columbus Dr, Chicago 60601
Is Fire Lake clean?
Fire Lake is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 31, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Fire Lake?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 31, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪳pests in the houseInsects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present • 6-202.15: OBSERVED OPENINGS AT LEFT AND RIGHT LOWER CORNERS OF DOCK DOORS IN ROOM WITH TRASH COMPACTOR. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL ALL OUTER OPENINGS TO PREVENT PEST ENTRANCE.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • 3-307.11: OBSERVED NO LEFT AND RIGHT SPLASH GUARD ON RESTAURANT FRONT PREP AREA HANDWASHING SINK. INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL LEFT AND RIGHT SPLASH GUARDS ON HANDWASHING SINK IN RESTAURANT FRONT PREP AREA HANDWASHING SINK TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION OF PREP SURFACES, EQUIPMENT OR FOOD.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • 3-307.11: OBSERVED NO LEFT AND RIGHT SPLASH GUARD ON RESTAURANT FRONT PREP AREA HANDWASHING SINK. INSTRUCTED TO INSTALL LEFT AND RIGHT SPLASH GUARDS ON HANDWASHING SINK IN RESTAURANT FRONT PREP AREA HANDWASHING SINK TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION OF PREP SURFACES, EQUIPMENT OR FOOD.
When was Fire Lake last inspected?
Fire Lake has 24 inspections on record going back to October 4, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 22, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 21, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 13, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 6, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 21, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2022 | Fail | |
| July 28, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 30, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 28, 2021 | Fail | |
| July 13, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 19, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Fire Lake vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, 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 October 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.