Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grand Boulevard, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Grand Boulevard — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grand Boulevard, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Grand Boulevard itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (27).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Illinois State Police (4), Chicago 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 Grand Boulevard in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Grand Boulevard
The readers mapped around Grand Boulevard break down as 20 Motorola Solutions, 6 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police, Chicago Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Dan Ryan Expressway (Express) — 12 readers
- Dan Ryan Expressway (Local) — 11 readers
- South Wells Street — 2 readers
- South LaSalle Street — 1 reader
- East 43rd Street — 1 reader
Grand Boulevard 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: Illinois State Police (4), Chicago Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Grand Boulevard, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Grand Boulevard. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Grand Boulevard
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 Grand Boulevard — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grand Boulevard (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Grand Boulevard
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 Grand Boulevard
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).