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 up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

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.

The Chicago Club vs Loop

Loop runs 81% clean across 1,996 tracked restaurants — 1,595 clean, 329 mid, 43 cooked.

Against the 1,996 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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