Third Rail Tavern

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJanuary 30, 2025 →
• address1133 W Madison St, Chicago 60607

Is Third Rail Tavern clean?

Third Rail Tavern is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on January 30, 2025. 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 Third Rail Tavern?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 📋no certified food manager on dutycritical
  Person In Charge Present, Demonstrates Knowledge, And Performs Duties
• 📋certified manager paperwork missingcritical
  City Of Chicago Food Service Sanitation Certificate
• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display

When was Third Rail Tavern last inspected?

Third Rail Tavern has 21 inspections on record going back to September 17, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Third Rail Tavern vs Near West Side

Near West Side runs 80% clean across 1,294 tracked restaurants — 1,030 clean, 233 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 1,294 spots Cooked tracks in Near West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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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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 January 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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