# How to read a record — Food establishment inspections in Chicago

> What the record is, what the status means, and what is left out.

## How to read these records

### The record

Chicago Department of Public Health inspects restaurants, groceries, schools and other food establishments and publishes every inspection. This site gathers them into one record per establishment: the latest inspection, its result as the authority wrote it, and how many inspections the file holds. Establishments whose latest inspection found them out of business are left out.

### Status

Inspected food establishment. An inspection describes one visit on one day; it is not a rating of the business today. The text of violations and the inspector's name are not shown.

### What is not here

Individuals, and any name without a company word (Inc, LLC, Corp, Co…). Owner and contact names, phone numbers
and mailing addresses, which this site never downloads.

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Página: https://chicago-food-inspection-records.pages.dev/how-to-read/
Fonte: https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/4ijn-s7e5
Recolha: 2026-10-03