Halsted Packing House

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 25, 2025
• address445 N Halsted St, Chicago 60642
• cuisineGrocery Store

Is Halsted Packing House clean?

Halsted Packing House is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 25, 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 Halsted Packing House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • No certified food service manager on site, no certificate posted while handling and serving TCS foods (Raw lamb ) instructed to obtain. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.
• 🪳pests in the house
  Insects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present • Fly traps mounted in food production area, instructed to remove.

When was Halsted Packing House last inspected?

Halsted Packing House has 7 inspections on record going back to June 11, 2013.

Halsted Packing House vs Near West Side

Near West Side runs 72% clean across 2,033 tracked restaurants — 1,463 clean, 406 mid, 151 cooked.

Against the 2,033 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 40% of them.

Other spots in Near West Side

• ✓ Palace Grill
  cooked · November 29, 2023
• ? Mid West Imports
  cooked · October 7, 2010
• ✓ Economy Packing Co
  clean · March 5, 2010
• ✓ L Isaascson Stein Fish Co Inc
  cooked · August 17, 2015
• ✓ Columbus Meat Market, Inc.
  cooked · March 8, 2010
• ✓ Columbus Meat Market, Inc.
  clean · July 24, 2012

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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 November 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.