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Nookies On Wells
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 27, 2025
- address1746 N Wells St, Chicago 60614
Is Nookies On Wells clean?
Nookies On Wells is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 27, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Nookies On Wells?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeFood & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • NOTED HEAVY ICE BUILD UP INSIDE THE SERVICE PREP COOLER AT THE FIRST FLOOR KITCHEN. INSTRUCTED TO DEFROST, CLEAN AND MAINTAIN. • NOTED TORN RUBBER GASKET INSIDE THE DOOR OF 2 DOOR REFRIGERATION UNIT AT THE KITCHEN PREP ON THE FIRST FLOOR. INSTRUCTED TO DETAIL REPAIR AND MAINTAIN AND/OR REPLACE.
When was Nookies On Wells last inspected?
Nookies On Wells has 24 inspections on record going back to November 19, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 16, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 8, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| November 2, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 2, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 28, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 28, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 14, 2020 | Fail | |
| May 14, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions |
Nookies On Wells vs Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park runs 67% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 1,089 clean, 360 mid, 187 cooked.
Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 60% 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 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.