Little Caesar 's Pizza

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 31, 2026
• address5608 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago 60634

Is Little Caesar 's Pizza clean?

Little Caesar 's Pizza is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 31, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Little Caesar 's Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties • NO PERSON IN CHARGE ON SITE AT TIME OF INSPECTION. INSTRUCTED TO HAVE A PERSON IN CHARGE ON SITE AT ALL TIMES. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION.
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate • NO CERTIFIED FOOD MANAGER ON SITE WHILE TCS FOODS WERE BEING PREPARED AND SERVED(CHEESE, SAUSAGE). INSTRUCTED TO HAVE A CFM ON SITE AT ALL TIMES WHILE TCS FOODS ARE BEING PREPARED AND SERVED. PRIORITY FOUNDATION VIOLATION. 7-38-012. CITATION ISSUED.
• ⚠️Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED TWO FOOD EMPLOYEES PREPARING PIZZAS WITHOUT WEARING A HAIR RESTRAINT. MUST WEAR AN EFFECTIVE HAIR RESTRAINT WHEN PREPARING FOOD.
  Personal Cleanliness • OBSERVED TWO FOOD EMPLOYEES PREPARING PIZZAS WITHOUT WEARING A HAIR RESTRAINT. MUST WEAR AN EFFECTIVE HAIR RESTRAINT WHEN PREPARING FOOD.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED TORN BASEBOARDS UNDER HAND SINK AND BY REAR PREP TABLE CLOSEST TO THE TOILET ROOM. MUST SEAL AND REPAIR.

When was Little Caesar 's Pizza last inspected?

Little Caesar 's Pizza has 21 inspections on record going back to May 21, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Little Caesar 's Pizza vs Portage Park

Portage Park runs 65% clean across 715 tracked restaurants — 462 clean, 142 mid, 107 cooked.

Against the 715 spots Cooked tracks in Portage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 March 31, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.