540 Cafe

540 W Madison St · 60661 · Restaurant

No grade on fileNo score on file

Most recent inspection Not recorded. On average this location is inspected about every 289 days.

Inspection types on record: Canvass (10), License Re-Inspection (2), License (2).

Why this listing has no grade

No letter grade or score was published for this inspection.

No itemized violations were published for the most recent inspection, so the score is the only detail on file.

Inspection summary

540 Cafe has 14 health inspections on record with Chicago. The latest inspection on Not recorded recorded 0 itemized violations.

Inspection history

  1. January 9, 2026

    Canvass

    A · —
  2. February 4, 2025

    Canvass

    A · —
  3. April 2, 2024

    Canvass

    C · —
  4. April 18, 2023

    Canvass

    A · —
  5. January 29, 2020

    Canvass

    C · —
  6. January 18, 2019

    Canvass

    A · —
  7. April 5, 2018

    Canvass

    A · —
  8. July 27, 2017

    Canvass

    C · —
  9. November 14, 2016

    Canvass

    C · —
  10. May 9, 2016

    Canvass

    A · —
  11. October 8, 2015

    License Re-Inspection

    A · —
  12. October 7, 2015

    License Re-Inspection

    F · —
  13. October 2, 2015

    License

    F · —
  14. September 25, 2015

    License

    F · —
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Source: Chicago Metro open data. Grades shown as “derived” are calculated from the published score when the record has no official letter grade.