Winter's Jazz Club

• resultPass w/ Conditions
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 16, 2021
• address411 E Illinois St, Chicago 60611
• cuisineTavern

Is Winter's Jazz Club clean?

Winter's Jazz Club is currently Pass w/ Conditions from Chicago Department of Public Health, from an inspection on August 16, 2021. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Winter's Jazz Club?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 16, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒staff working while sickcritical
  Procedures For Responding To Vomiting And Diarrheal Events • OBSERVED NO VOMIT/DIARRHEA CLEANUP KIT OR WRITTEN PROCEDURES. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO PROVIDE. PRIORITY FOUNDATION 7-38-005.
• ⚠️Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED NO SPLASH GUARD ON THE BAR HANDWASHING SINK. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO PROVIDE A SPLASH GUARD TO PROTECT THE ADJACENT CLEAN GLASSES/DISHWARE FROM MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION.
  Contamination Prevented During Food Preparation, Storage & Display • OBSERVED NO SPLASH GUARD ON THE BAR HANDWASHING SINK. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO PROVIDE A SPLASH GUARD TO PROTECT THE ADJACENT CLEAN GLASSES/DISHWARE FROM MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION.
• 🚻bathroom / plumbing issues
  Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices • THE RIGHT SINK IN THE WOMENS RESTROOM IS SLOW DRAINING. THE 2ND SINK FROM THE LEFT IN THE WOMENS RESTROOM IS MISSING THE FAUCET. MUST REPAIR AND MAINTAIN.
• ⚠️Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • OBSERVED INDOOR GARBAGE AREA NOT MAINTAINED. FOUND A PILE OF GARBAGE BAGS ON THE FLOOR AND PLASTIC/OTHER GARBAGE ON THE FLOOR NEXT TO RECEPTACLES. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN INDOOR AREA WHERE DUMPSTERS ARE LOCATED.
  Garbage & Refuse Properly Disposed; Facilities Maintained • OBSERVED INDOOR GARBAGE AREA NOT MAINTAINED. FOUND A PILE OF GARBAGE BAGS ON THE FLOOR AND PLASTIC/OTHER GARBAGE ON THE FLOOR NEXT TO RECEPTACLES. INSTRUCTED MANAGEMENT TO CLEAN AND MAINTAIN INDOOR AREA WHERE DUMPSTERS ARE LOCATED.

When was Winter's Jazz Club last inspected?

Winter's Jazz Club has 4 inspections on record going back to November 8, 2016.

Winter's Jazz Club vs Near North Side

Near North Side runs 75% clean across 2,889 tracked restaurants — 2,147 clean, 530 mid, 203 cooked.

Against the 2,889 spots Cooked tracks in Near North Side, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 August 16, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.