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The Dandy Crown
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 5, 2025
- address694 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago 60642
Is The Dandy Crown clean?
The Dandy Crown is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on December 5, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Dandy Crown?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • Unable to locate the backflow prevention device for the basement's ice maker, Instructed to install.
When was The Dandy Crown last inspected?
The Dandy Crown has 9 inspections on record going back to November 25, 2020.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 25, 2025 | — | |
| August 21, 2025 | — | |
| May 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 18, 2023 | — | |
| January 27, 2023 | — | |
| December 21, 2020 | Pass | |
| November 25, 2020 | — |
The Dandy Crown 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 December 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.