Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elk Grove Village, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 62 automated license plate readers in and around Elk Grove Village — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 62 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elk Grove Village, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 44 of them sit inside Elk Grove Village itself.
The rest sit in Mount Prospect (5), Des Plaines (3), Elk Grove Township (3), Wood Dale (3), Chicago (2), Arlington Heights (1), Bensenville (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Wood Dale Police Department (3), Elk Grove Village Police Department (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 Elk Grove Village in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:35 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elk Grove Village
The readers mapped around Elk Grove Village break down as 61 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Wood Dale Police Department, Elk Grove Village Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Higgins Road — 8 readers
- Lively Boulevard — 6 readers
- South Elmhurst Road — 4 readers
- Busse Road — 4 readers
- Devon Avenue — 3 readers
- Tonne Road — 3 readers
- South Arlington Heights Road — 3 readers
- Oakton Street — 3 readers
- York Road — 2 readers
- Biesterfield Road — 2 readers
- Greenleaf Avenue — 2 readers
- Mount Prospect — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Elk Grove Village — all on the live map above.
Elk Grove Village 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 35 traffic. Operators named on the record: Wood Dale Police Department (3), Elk Grove Village Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Elk Grove Village, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Elk Grove Village. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Elk Grove Village
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 Elk Grove Village — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elk Grove Village (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Elk Grove Village
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 Elk Grove Village
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).