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The Congress Hotel(Tavern Hall-Rafael)
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 23, 2026
- address520 S Michigan Ave, Chicago 60605
Is The Congress Hotel(Tavern Hall-Rafael) clean?
The Congress Hotel(Tavern Hall-Rafael) is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on March 23, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Congress Hotel(Tavern Hall-Rafael)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED SPILLAGE ON FLOOR IN BAR AREA NEXT TO AND IN BETWEEN COMPACT REFRIGERATORS AND ON WALLS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN TO PREVENT PEST ACTIVITY.
When was The Congress Hotel(Tavern Hall-Rafael) last inspected?
The Congress Hotel(Tavern Hall-Rafael) has 25 inspections on record going back to March 18, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 23, 2026 | Pass | |
| September 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 29, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 1, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 20, 2018 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 26, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 29, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 21, 2017 | Fail |
The Congress Hotel(Tavern Hall-Rafael) 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 59% 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 March 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.