Tower House

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 20, 2024
• address233 S Wacker Dr, Chicago 60606

Is Tower House clean?

Tower House is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on November 20, 2024. 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 Tower House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 20, 2024, 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 • No certified food service manager on site, no certificate posted while handling and serving TCS foods ( deli meat, milk..) instructed manager to obtain and post. Priority foundation violation 7-38-012.

When was Tower House last inspected?

Tower House has 4 inspections on record going back to March 22, 2018.

Tower House vs Loop

Loop runs 70% clean across 3,616 tracked restaurants — 2,521 clean, 764 mid, 300 cooked.

Against the 3,616 spots Cooked tracks in Loop, this one comes out cleaner than 10% of them.

Other spots in Loop

• ✓ Tower House
  clean · March 22, 2018
• ✓ The Exchange
  clean · November 17, 2025
• ✓ The Exchange
  clean · November 13, 2018
• ✓ The Veggie Grill
  clean · April 24, 2018
• ✓! Spanglish Mexican Kitchen
  mid · January 9, 2020
• ✓ Taco Rio
  clean · August 18, 2022

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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 November 20, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.