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Paterno's Pizza
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 25, 2025
- address5303 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago 60630
Is Paterno's Pizza clean?
Paterno's Pizza is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 25, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Paterno's Pizza?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on November 25, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Paterno's Pizza last inspected?
Paterno's Pizza has 22 inspections on record going back to January 13, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 19, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 3, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 7, 2022 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 5, 2021 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 15, 2020 | Pass | |
| July 9, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 15, 2018 | Pass | |
| May 8, 2018 | Fail | |
| September 8, 2017 | Pass |
Paterno's Pizza vs Jefferson Park
Jefferson Park runs 69% clean across 272 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 47 mid, 37 cooked.
Against the 272 spots Cooked tracks in Jefferson Park, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 November 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.