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Chicago schools fail food inspections more often than restaurants

Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: Restaurant Inspections API – Health Scores, Grades and Violations

Since 2024, 23.8% of Chicago school kitchen inspections ended in "Fail", against 17.6% for restaurants. Long-term care facilities (22.7%) also fail more often than restaurants.

School23.8%Mobile Food Prepar…23.2%Long Term Care22.7%Grocery Store18.8%Bakery18.7%Restaurant17.6%Daycare Above and …17.2%Children's Service…15.3%
Facility typeInspectionsFail rate
School3,18223.8%
Mobile Food Preparer39223.2%
Long Term Care47622.7%
Grocery Store4,87218.8%
Bakery72618.7%
Restaurant37,08517.6%
Daycare Above and Under 2 Years72017.2%
Children's Services Facility1,83715.3%

Caveats

Chicago Department of Public Health inspections, Jan 2024 to Nov 2026; types with 300+ inspections.

Sources

  • Restaurant Inspections API – Health Scores, Grades and Violations: the primary sources are listed on the API page, read on 2026-11-07

Data as of 2026-11-07. Every figure in this post is in the table above and the CSV below.

Download the data behind this post: b1-chicago-fail-rate-by-facility-type-2024-26.csv

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Every number in this post comes from the Restaurant Inspections API – Health Scores, Grades and Violations. $0.0008 per row returned; every key gets $1 of free usage each month.

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/restaurant-inspections/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jurisdictions": ["nyc"], "name": "pizza", "maxItems": 20}'
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