Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Garfield Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around East Garfield Park — 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 East Garfield Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Garfield Park itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (24).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Illinois State Police (10), Chicago Police Department (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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No new reports near East Garfield Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in East Garfield Park
The readers mapped around East Garfield Park break down as 15 of unrecorded make, 7 Motorola Solutions, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police, Chicago Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Eisenhower Expressway — 9 readers
- South Western Avenue — 4 readers
- Lake Street Bikeway — 3 readers
- West Van Buren Street — 2 readers
- South California Avenue — 2 readers
- West Chicago Avenue — 1 reader
- North Homan Avenue — 1 reader
- North Homan Boulevard — 1 reader
- West 12th Place — 1 reader
East Garfield Park 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 16 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Illinois State Police (10), Chicago Police Department (1).
What’s watching East Garfield Park
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 East Garfield Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Garfield Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East Garfield Park
What you can do in East Garfield Park
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 East Garfield Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).