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Old Town Pour House
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 31, 2024
- address1417-19 N Wells St, Chicago 60610
Is Old Town Pour House clean?
Old Town Pour House is currently listed as closed by Chicago Department of Public Health, as of its inspection on July 31, 2024. 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 Old Town Pour House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 31, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪳pests in the houseInsects, Rodents, & Animals Not Present • 6-202.15: OBSERVED OPENINGS AT BASE OF CENTER OF REVOLVING FRONT ENTRANCE DOOR. INSTRUCTED TO SEAL ALL OUTER OPENINGS TO PREVENT PEST ENTRANCE.
When was Old Town Pour House last inspected?
Old Town Pour House has 25 inspections on record going back to February 24, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 4, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| July 31, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 24, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 18, 2024 | — | |
| May 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 10, 2023 | Fail | |
| August 10, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 19, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 28, 2022 | — | |
| July 28, 2020 | Pass | |
| July 21, 2020 | Fail | |
| February 25, 2020 | — |
Old Town Pour House 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 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 July 31, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.