The Piggery

• resultPass
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 23, 2025 →
• address1619-1625 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago 60613

Is The Piggery clean?

The Piggery is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 23, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Piggery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🚰handwashing sink blocked or barecritical
  Adequate Handwashing Sinks Properly Supplied And Accessible
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was The Piggery last inspected?

The Piggery has 17 inspections on record going back to November 18, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Piggery vs North Center

North Center runs 83% clean across 493 tracked restaurants — 407 clean, 73 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 493 spots Cooked tracks in North Center, this one comes out cleaner than 17% of them.

Other spots in North Center

• ✓ The Piggery
  clean · November 18, 2014
• ✓ Lou Malnati's Pizzeria
  clean · March 7, 2025
• ✓ Lou Malnati's Pizzeria
  clean · April 27, 2015
• ✓! Machu Picchu
  cooked · June 10, 2019
• ✓ Via Lima Restaurant
  cooked · April 12, 2017
• ✓ Via Lima Restaurant
  clean · April 7, 2015

See every restaurant inspection in North Center →

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.

Read the Chicago ratings guide →

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 July 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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