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White Castle
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 2, 2025
- address2356 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago 60608
Is White Castle clean?
White Castle is currently Pass from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on April 2, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at White Castle?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚿plumbing acting upNon-Food/Food Contact Surfaces Clean • 4-601.11 OBSERVED INTERIOR OF ALL COOKING EQUIPMENT AND REFRIGERATION AND FREEZER UNITS NEED TO BE CLEANED. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN.
- 🚻bathroom / plumbing issuesPlumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • 5-205.15 OBSERVED SLOW DRAINING HAND WASHING SINK IN THE TOILET ROOM. INSTRUCTED TO REPAIR.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimyPhysical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean • 6-501.12 OBSERVED FLOORS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE FACILITY WITH ACCUMULATED FOOD, GREASE, AND DIRT DEBRIS. INSTRUCTED TO CLEAN UNDER AND BEHIND ALL EQUIPMENT, UNDER THE 3 COMPARTMENT SINK AND IN THE TOILET ROOM.
When was White Castle last inspected?
White Castle has 16 inspections on record going back to January 21, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 21, 2021 | Pass | |
| June 14, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 20, 2019 | Pass | |
| December 22, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2016 | Pass | |
| May 10, 2016 | Pass w/ Conditions | |
| May 6, 2016 | Fail | |
| February 24, 2016 | Pass | |
| September 9, 2015 | Pass | |
| August 13, 2014 | Pass w/ Conditions |
White Castle vs East Garfield Park
East Garfield Park runs 66% clean across 510 tracked restaurants — 336 clean, 87 mid, 85 cooked.
Against the 510 spots Cooked tracks in East Garfield Park, this one comes out cleaner than 35% 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 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.