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The Chicago Club
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 3, 2025
- address81 E Van Buren St, Chicago 60605
Is The Chicago Club clean?
The Chicago Club is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 3, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Chicago Club?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED RESIDUE ON INTERIOR SURFACES OF ICE MACHINE IN 3 FLOOR AND TERRENCE AREAS INSTRUCTED MANAGER TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • OBSERVED 2 COMPARTMENT SINK IN THE FISH PREP AREA ON THE 3RD FLOOR WITH A LEAK. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • FLOORS IN THE CORNERS, UNDER/AROUND HEAVY EQUIPMENT, SINKS AND DISH MACHINE WITH DIRT, FOOD AND DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN FLOORS.
When was The Chicago Club last inspected?
The Chicago Club has 20 inspections on record going back to August 26, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 24, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 20, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 27, 2023 | Fail | |
| December 27, 2022 | — | |
| October 26, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 19, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 17, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| July 18, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| June 12, 2017 | Pass |
The Chicago Club vs Loop
Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.
Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, 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 December 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.