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Lou Mitchell's
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 15, 2025
- address565 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago 60661
Is Lou Mitchell's clean?
Lou Mitchell's is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 15, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lou Mitchell's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • FOUND FOOD CONTAINERS NOT STORED PROPERLY ON DRYING RACKS.MUST STORE INVERTED.Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled • FOUND FOOD CONTAINERS NOT STORED PROPERLY ON DRYING RACKS.MUST STORE INVERTED.
When was Lou Mitchell's last inspected?
Lou Mitchell's has 36 inspections on record going back to September 13, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 22, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 3, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 27, 2022 | Fail | |
| January 8, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| February 22, 2019 | Pass | |
| February 15, 2019 | Fail | |
| March 22, 2018 | Pass | |
| January 11, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 17, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 15, 2017 | Pass |
Lou Mitchell's 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 30% 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 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.