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Vaughans Pub
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 22, 2025
- address5485 N Northwest Hwy, Chicago 60630
Is Vaughans Pub clean?
Vaughans Pub is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Vaughans Pub?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED ICE BUCKETS HANGING OFF OF EXPOSED PIPES IN BASEMENT NEXT TO ICE MACHINE USED FOR CONSUMPTION. DO NOT HANG ICE BUCKETS FROM CEILING PIPES AND STORE BUCKETS SO THAT CONAMINANTS CAN NOT FALL INTO BUCKET.Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED ICE BUCKETS HANGING OFF OF EXPOSED PIPES IN BASEMENT NEXT TO ICE MACHINE USED FOR CONSUMPTION. DO NOT HANG ICE BUCKETS FROM CEILING PIPES AND STORE BUCKETS SO THAT CONAMINANTS CAN NOT FALL INTO BUCKET.
When was Vaughans Pub last inspected?
Vaughans Pub has 19 inspections on record going back to June 4, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 5, 2024 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| April 10, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 4, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 19, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 12, 2021 | — | |
| April 22, 2019 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 29, 2017 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| September 14, 2016 | Pass | |
| September 6, 2016 | Fail | |
| August 21, 2015 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| October 21, 2014 | Pass |
Vaughans Pub vs Jefferson Park
Jefferson Park runs 69% clean across 272 tracked restaurants — 188 clean, 47 mid, 37 cooked.
Against the 272 spots Cooked tracks in Jefferson Park, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 April 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.