Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hyde Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Hyde 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 Hyde Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hyde Park itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (23).
7 of them name an operator in the record: University of Chicago Police Department (6), 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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- Sep 24 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hyde Park
The readers mapped around Hyde Park break down as 13 Genetec, 5 of unrecorded make, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: University of Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East 56th Street — 3 readers
- East 57th Street — 3 readers
- East 58th Street — 3 readers
- 55th Street Bikeway — 2 readers
- Lakefront Trail — 1 reader
- East 59th Street — 1 reader
- South Ellis Avenue — 1 reader
- East 54th Street — 1 reader
- South Drexel Avenue — 1 reader
- South Kimbark Avenue — 1 reader
- East 55th Street — 1 reader
- South University Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Hyde Park — all on the live map above.
Hyde 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 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: University of Chicago Police Department (6), Chicago Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Hyde Park, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hyde Park. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Hyde 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 Hyde Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hyde Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hyde Park
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hyde Park, IL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Hyde Park, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hyde Park, IL
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Hyde Park, IL
What you can do in Hyde 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 Hyde Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).