The Press Room

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 16, 2026 →
• address1134 W Washington Blvd, Chicago 60607

Is The Press Room clean?

The Press Room is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on July 16, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Press Room?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display
• ⚠️Utensils, Equipment & Linens: Properly Stored, Dried, & Handled
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean

When was The Press Room last inspected?

The Press Room has 16 inspections on record going back to August 22, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

The Press Room vs Near West Side

Near West Side runs 81% clean across 1,308 tracked restaurants — 1,041 clean, 229 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 1,308 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 22% of them.

Other spots in Near West Side

• ✓ The Press Room
  clean · August 24, 2017
• ✓ The Eastman Egg Company
  cooked · March 9, 2018
• ✓ Room Five Hundred
  clean · February 2, 2017
• ✓ Dark Matter
  clean · October 23, 2024
• ✓ Kuma's Corner
  cooked · June 28, 2024
• ✓ Kuma's Corner
  clean · May 11, 2017

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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.

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 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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