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Morgan Street Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 29, 2025
- address111 S Morgan St, Chicago 60607
Is Morgan Street Cafe clean?
Morgan Street Cafe is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on April 29, 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 Morgan Street Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED GREASE BUILDUP ON COOKING EQUIPMENT, WALLS, SURROUNDING FLOORS AND SHELVING UNITS IN THE KITCHEN/PREP AREAS. INSTRUCTED TO DEGREASE, CLEAN AND SANITIZE.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED FOOD DEBRIS AND SPILLS ON THE FLOORS AND SURFACES THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL CLEAN UNDER ALL SHELVING UNITS, INTERIOR OF PREP DISH AREA, AROUND DISH MACHINE, PREP TABLES AND ALL COOKING EQUIPMENT TO REMOVE SPILLS, FOOD DEBRIS, DIRT BUILDUP AND/OR GREASE. INSTRUCTED TO INCREASE CLEANING FREQUENCY AND MAINTAIN AT ALL TIMES.
When was Morgan Street Cafe last inspected?
Morgan Street Cafe has 10 inspections on record going back to March 2, 2018.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 8, 2026 | closed by the city | |
| April 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 28, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 21, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 3, 2023 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 12, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 6, 2021 | Pass | |
| June 10, 2020 | Pass | |
| April 19, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| March 2, 2018 | Pass |
Morgan Street Cafe 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 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 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.