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Chicago violation 54: GARBAGE & REFUSE PROPERLY DISPOSED; FACILITIES MAINTAINED

Official wording (Chicago Department of Public Health): GARBAGE & REFUSE PROPERLY DISPOSED; FACILITIES MAINTAINED

In inspections since January 2021 this violation number was listed 2,469 times at 1,662 currently active establishments in our data. Chicago's dataset does not label individual violations as critical or not, so FoodCheck USA does not assign a severity.

Citations by year

YearTimes cited
2021249
2022315
2023447
2024507
2025515
2026436

Most recent citations

Establishments where this code most recently appeared. A citation reflects one inspection on one date.

How Chicago inspections are scored

Source: Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), Food Protection Program, “Food Inspections” dataset on the official open data portal. Source data as of Nov 3, 2026; imported by FoodCheck USA on Nov 5, 2026.