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Subway
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 19, 2025
- address4861 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago 60630
Is Subway clean?
Subway is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 19, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Subway?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED DRAIN PLUMBING AT THE REAR AREA HANDWASHING SINK TO BE IN POOR REPAIR, SLOW-DRAINING BUT FUNCTIONAL. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR OR REPLACE REAR AREA HANDWASHING SINK DRAIN PLUMBING TO ALLOW FOR ADEQUATE DRAINAGE AND MAINTAIN ALL PLUMBING FIXTURES IN GOOD REPAIR.
When was Subway last inspected?
Subway has 21 inspections on record going back to January 13, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 7, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 2, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 11, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 24, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 9, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 14, 2019 | Pass | |
| May 16, 2018 | Pass | |
| December 1, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 25, 2017 | Pass | |
| November 22, 2016 | Pass |
Subway 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, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.