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Portage Grounds
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 19, 2022
- address5501 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago 60641
Is Portage Grounds clean?
Portage Grounds is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 19, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Portage Grounds?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 19, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedFood-Contact Surfaces: Cleaned & Sanitized • OBSERVED INTERIOR OF ICE MACHINE BIN AND INTERIOR GUARD WITH SOME DIRT, NOT CLEAN. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO DETAIL CLEAN AND MAINTAIN.
- ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED ONE EMPLOYEE WITH AN EXPIRED FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATE. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO RENEW EXPIRED FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATE TO COMPLY WITH IDPH FOOD HANDLER REQUIREMENTS.All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • OBSERVED ONE EMPLOYEE WITH AN EXPIRED FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATE. INSTRUCTED THE PERSON IN CHARGE TO RENEW EXPIRED FOOD HANDLER CERTIFICATE TO COMPLY WITH IDPH FOOD HANDLER REQUIREMENTS.
When was Portage Grounds last inspected?
Portage Grounds has 13 inspections on record going back to May 28, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 9, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 1, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 19, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 25, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 21, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 20, 2015 | Pass | |
| October 13, 2015 | Fail | |
| July 29, 2014 | Pass | |
| October 30, 2013 | Pass | |
| July 19, 2013 | Pass | |
| July 5, 2013 | Fail |
Portage Grounds vs Portage Park
Portage Park runs 65% clean across 715 tracked restaurants — 462 clean, 142 mid, 107 cooked.
Against the 715 spots Cooked tracks in Portage Park, this one comes out cleaner than 37% 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 December 19, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.