Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chatham, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Chatham — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Chatham, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Chatham itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (24).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (5), Illinois State Police (5). 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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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Chatham
The readers mapped around Chatham break down as 10 of unrecorded make, 8 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police, Chicago Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West 87th Street — 6 readers
- Dan Ryan Expressway — 4 readers
- Bishop Ford Freeway — 3 readers
- South Cottage Grove Avenue — 2 readers
- East 79th Street — 2 readers
- East 93rd Street — 1 reader
- Chicago — 1 reader
- South Michigan Avenue — 1 reader
- South Wentworth Avenue — 1 reader
- South Holland Road — 1 reader
- South Stony Island Avenue — 1 reader
Chatham IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Chatham IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 79 other agencies.
Chatham 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 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Illinois State Police (5), Chicago Police Department (5).
What’s watching Chatham
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 Chatham — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chatham (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Chatham
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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Chatham
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).