Flock & ALPR Cameras in Belmont Cragin, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Belmont Cragin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Belmont Cragin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Belmont Cragin itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (33).
17 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (15), Flock Safety (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Belmont Cragin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 11, 02:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Belmont Cragin
The readers mapped around Belmont Cragin break down as 20 of unrecorded make, 8 Motorola Solutions, 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2021; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West North Avenue — 5 readers
- North Cicero Avenue — 5 readers
- West Fullerton Avenue — 4 readers
- North Narragansett Avenue — 3 readers
- West Diversey Avenue — 3 readers
- West Drummond Place — 2 readers
- North Austin Avenue — 2 readers
- West Grand Avenue — 2 readers
- West Armitage Avenue — 2 readers
- North Laramie Avenue — 1 reader
- North Kostner Avenue — 1 reader
- North Leclaire Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Belmont Cragin — all on the live map above.
Belmont Cragin in the Cook County picture
Cook County has 1,915 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #823 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 5,185,812 residents and 9,668 road miles. By road density that is 0.20 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 26 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (15), Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around Belmont Cragin, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Belmont Cragin. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Belmont Cragin
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Belmont Cragin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Belmont Cragin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Belmont Cragin
What you can do in Belmont Cragin
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
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Cameras near Belmont Cragin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).