Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chicago Ridge, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Chicago Ridge — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Chicago Ridge, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Chicago Ridge itself.
The rest sit in Worth (3), Oak Lawn (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Chicago Ridge in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Chicago Ridge
The readers mapped around Chicago Ridge break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West 111th Street — 2 readers
- South Central Avenue — 1 reader
- Southwest Highway — 1 reader
- 103rd Street — 1 reader
- South Ridgeland Avenue — 1 reader
Chicago Ridge 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 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Chicago Ridge, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Chicago Ridge. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Chicago Ridge
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 Chicago Ridge — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chicago Ridge (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Chicago Ridge
- On the agenda: Chicago Ridge meeting — LPR Camera (Apr 14)
- Chicago Ridge adding license plate readers, new restaurant and farmers market
What you can do in Chicago Ridge
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 Chicago Ridge
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).