Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lincoln Square, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Lincoln Square — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lincoln Square, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lincoln Square itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (15).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lincoln Square in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lincoln Square
The readers mapped around Lincoln Square break down as 9 of unrecorded make, 4 Motorola Solutions, 1 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Lawrence Avenue — 5 readers
- North Western Avenue — 3 readers
- North Lincoln Avenue — 3 readers
- West Foster Avenue — 2 readers
- West Berwyn Avenue — 1 reader
- North Damen Avenue — 1 reader
Lincoln Square 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 12 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Lincoln Square, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lincoln Square. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Lincoln Square
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 Lincoln Square — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lincoln Square (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lincoln Square
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 Lincoln Square
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).