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Parkway Ballroom
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 14, 2025
- address4455 S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Chicago 60653
- cuisineCatering
Is Parkway Ballroom clean?
Parkway Ballroom is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Parkway Ballroom?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED A LEAK AT THE BASE OF THE FAUCET AT THE 3 COMP SINK. MUST REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
When was Parkway Ballroom last inspected?
Parkway Ballroom has 19 inspections on record going back to October 19, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 19, 2024 | — | |
| October 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 29, 2021 | Pass | |
| December 2, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 25, 2018 | — | |
| September 20, 2018 | — | |
| November 8, 2017 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2017 | — | |
| October 13, 2017 | — | |
| September 30, 2016 | Pass |
Parkway Ballroom vs Grand Boulevard
Grand Boulevard runs 67% clean across 265 tracked restaurants — 177 clean, 52 mid, 34 cooked.
Against the 265 spots Cooked tracks in Grand Boulevard, this one comes out cleaner than 35% 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 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.