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Roots Handmade Pizza
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 28, 2025
- address1922-1924 W Chicago Ave, Chicago 60622
Is Roots Handmade Pizza clean?
Roots Handmade Pizza is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 28, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Roots Handmade Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • Employees personal items stored on food shelves, instructed to separate.Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used • Employees personal items stored on food shelves, instructed to separate.
When was Roots Handmade Pizza last inspected?
Roots Handmade Pizza has 26 inspections on record going back to May 12, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 19, 2025 | — | |
| April 29, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 24, 2022 | Pass | |
| December 2, 2020 | Pass | |
| May 18, 2020 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 16, 2019 | Pass | |
| October 8, 2019 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2018 | Pass | |
| March 2, 2017 | Pass |
Roots Handmade Pizza vs West Town
West Town runs 72% clean across 2,068 tracked restaurants — 1,475 clean, 422 mid, 160 cooked.
Against the 2,068 spots Cooked tracks in West Town, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 May 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.