Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cicero, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Cicero — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 34 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cicero, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Cicero itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (4), Stickney (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (8), The Home Depot (1). 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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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cicero
The readers mapped around Cicero break down as 33 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in May 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Cicero Avenue — 7 readers
- South Central Avenue — 5 readers
- West 31st Street — 3 readers
- West 16th Street — 3 readers
- West Cermak Road — 2 readers
- West Roosevelt Road — 2 readers
- West 34th Street — 2 readers
- West 26th Street — 2 readers
- South Austin Boulevard — 2 readers
- South 50th Avenue — 1 reader
- West 25th Street — 1 reader
- West Pershing Road — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Cicero — all on the live map above.
Cicero IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cicero IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 28 other agencies.
Cicero 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 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (8), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Cicero, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cicero. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Cicero
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 Cicero — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cicero (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cicero
What you can do in Cicero
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 Cicero
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).