Cooked?The Giant Penny Whistle
- resultPass w/ Conditions
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJuly 23, 2019 →
- address1854-1856 S Blue Island, Chicago 60608
- cuisineTavern
Is The Giant Penny Whistle clean?
The Giant Penny Whistle is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 23, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at The Giant Penny Whistle?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 23, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🤒sick-employee policy not followedcriticalManagement, Food Employee And Conditional Employee; Knowledge, Responsibilities And Reporting
- 🤒staff working while sickcriticalProcedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events
When was The Giant Penny Whistle last inspected?
The Giant Penny Whistle has 1 inspection on record going back to July 23, 2019.
July 23, 2019 Pass w/ Conditions
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Lower West Side runs 80% clean across 699 tracked restaurants — 551 clean, 98 mid, 38 cooked.
Against the 699 spots Cooked tracks in Lower West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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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Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated July 23, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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