Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hanover Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Hanover Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hanover Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Hanover Park itself.
The rest sit in Schaumburg (5), Bartlett (4), Roselle (2), Streamwood (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hanover Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hanover Park
The readers mapped around Hanover Park break down as 21 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- East Stearns Road — 2 readers
- Barrington Road — 2 readers
- East Irving Park Road — 2 readers
- East Devon Avenue — 2 readers
- Elgin-O'Hare Tollway — 2 readers
- Newport Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Central Avenue — 1 reader
- County Farm Road — 1 reader
- West Weathersfield Way — 1 reader
- Buttitta Drive — 1 reader
- Wise Road — 1 reader
- South Springinsguth Road — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Hanover Park — all on the live map above.
Hanover Park IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hanover Park IL PD runs 13 cameras of its own, has captured 455,749 vehicle records. Its network connects to 136 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Hanover 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, 1 street.
What’s watching Hanover 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 Hanover Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hanover Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hanover Park
- On the agenda: Hanover Park meeting — Flock Safety (Jul 16)
- On the agenda: Hanover Park meeting — Flock Safety (May 7)
- Hanover Park CPF says gang violence and shootings continue despite ShotSpotter relaunch
- ShotSpotter makes a comeback, with Hanover Park first to receive second phase of roll-out
What you can do in Hanover 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 Hanover Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).