Truth

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 6, 2025
• address56 E Pershing Rd, Chicago 60653

Is Truth clean?

Truth is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on October 6, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Truth?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🏷️food improperly labeled
  Food Properly Labeled; Original Container • 3-601.11 OBSERVED BULK CONTAINERS CONTAINING ITEMS REMOVED FROM ORIGINAL PACKAGING WITHOUT LABELS. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Food & Non-Food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used • 4-501.11 OBSERVED MULTPLE IN USE PREP TABLE SHELVING LOCATED IN PREP RUSTED. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE SURFACES AND MAINTAIN IN GOOD REPAIR.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Non-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • OBSERVED PREP TABLES, STORAGE SHELVING UNITS, HEAVY COOKING EQUIPMENT AS WELL AS COOLING UNITS WITH FOOD SPLATTER AND ACCUUMULATED DRIED FOOD DEBRIS
• ⚠️Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • 5-501.116 OBSERVED GREASE RECEPTACLE WITH ACCUMULATED FOOD AND GREASE DEBRIS ON EXTERIOR SURFACES OF EQUIPMENT. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN IN ORDER TO PREVENT PEST HARBORAGE.
  Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • 5-501.116 OBSERVED GREASE RECEPTACLE WITH ACCUMULATED FOOD AND GREASE DEBRIS ON EXTERIOR SURFACES OF EQUIPMENT. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN IN ORDER TO PREVENT PEST HARBORAGE.
• 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy
  Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-501.12 OUT C 12/25/2025 OBSERVED FLOORS AND WALLS STORAGE SPACES, THROUGHOUT PREMISE IN NEED OF CLEANING. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN IN ORDER TO PREVENT FEEDING SOURCE FOR PEST. • 6-201.11 OBSERVED FLOORS THROUGHOUT PREP AND BAR COVERED WITH CARBOARD, INSTRUCTED TO REMOVE, AND PROVIDE SMOOTH AND EASILY CLEANABLE FLOORS AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • 2-102.13OBSERVED MISSING FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFCATIONS FOR FOOD EMPLOYEES. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON SITE FOR REVIEW.
  All Food Employees Have Food Handler Training • 2-102.13OBSERVED MISSING FOOD HANDLER TRAINING CERTIFCATIONS FOR FOOD EMPLOYEES. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON SITE FOR REVIEW.
• 🥜allergen training missing
  Allergen Training As Required • 2-102.13 OBSERVED NO PROOF OF UPDATED ALLERGEN TRAINING AVAILBLE ON SITE FOR REVIEW. INSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN

When was Truth last inspected?

Truth has 20 inspections on record going back to February 19, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Truth vs Grand Boulevard

Grand Boulevard runs 67% clean across 265 tracked restaurants — 177 clean, 52 mid, 34 cooked.

Against the 265 spots Cooked tracks in Grand Boulevard, this one comes out cleaner than 35% of them.

Other spots in Grand Boulevard

• ✓ Truth
  clean · February 19, 2015
• ✓! Subway
  mid · June 9, 2017
• ✓ Subway
  clean · April 30, 2021
• ✓ China Wok
  clean · June 21, 2016
• ✓ Tabernacle/Willa Rawls Manor
  clean · March 7, 2012
• ✓ Bronzville Meat Market, Inc
  clean · June 16, 2015

See every restaurant inspection in Grand Boulevard →

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 October 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.