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Market Creations
- resultPass
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 23, 2025
- address444 W Lake St, Chicago 60606
Is Market Creations clean?
Market Creations is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 23, 2025. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Market Creations?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecriticalAdequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible • Weak hot water pressure at women's restroom hand wash sink faucet. Instructed to provide under city pressure.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Meat slicer not cleaned properly behind blade, food debris noted at the blade housing, Instructed to clean and maintain.
When was Market Creations last inspected?
Market Creations has 13 inspections on record going back to January 12, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2026 | closed by the city | |
| April 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 7, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2023 | Fail | |
| June 29, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 22, 2022 | Fail | |
| January 22, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 7, 2020 | Pass | |
| November 14, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 7, 2019 | Fail | |
| January 30, 2018 | Pass |
Market Creations 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 0% 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 April 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.