KNOW BEFORE
YOU EAT.
Search official Chicago restaurant and bar health inspection records — pass/fail results, violations, and full history, straight from the city’s own data.
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Recently inspected across Chicago
The latest health inspection results filed by the Chicago Department of Public Health, one per neighborhood.
Chicago’s most-cited health violations
Across 6,488 Chicago restaurants and bars carrying any violation on their latest inspection. Frequency is not severity — the most-written-up item is one of the least predictive of an actual failure, which we analyzed across 184,618 inspections.
- Physical Facilities Installed, Maintained & Clean
- Food & Non-food Contact Surfaces Cleanable, Properly Designed, Constructed & Used
- Non-food/food Contact Surfaces Clean
- Plumbing Installed; Proper Backflow Devices
- Adequate Ventilation & Lighting; Designated Areas Used
Independent service — not affiliated with the City of Chicago, Cook County, or any restaurant. Health inspection data sourced directly from the City of Chicago's public Food Inspections open-data feed (data.cityofchicago.org, dataset 4ijn-s7e5), rebuilt from the live feed on every deploy. Neighborhood is derived from ZIP code and is approximate.