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Up Comedy Club
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 14, 2026
- address1616 N Wells St, Chicago 60614
Is Up Comedy Club clean?
Up Comedy Club is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on May 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Up Comedy Club?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • OBSERVED UNUSED HIGH TEMPERATURE DISH MACHINE IN REAR PREP AREA. INSTRUCTED TO EITHER REPAIR AND MAINTAIN IN GOOD CONDITION OR PLACE "OUT OF ORDER" SIGNAGE ON MACHINE.
When was Up Comedy Club last inspected?
Up Comedy Club has 20 inspections on record going back to December 1, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 13, 2026 | Pass | |
| December 2, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 18, 2025 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| November 5, 2025 | — | |
| May 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 29, 2024 | — | |
| October 19, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 12, 2022 | Fail | |
| December 6, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| August 4, 2017 | Pass |
Up Comedy Club vs Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park runs 67% clean across 1,649 tracked restaurants — 1,089 clean, 360 mid, 187 cooked.
Against the 1,649 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Park, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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.
Source: Chicago Department of Public Health via Chicago Data Portal. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.