Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lincolnwood, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Lincolnwood — 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 Lincolnwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Lincolnwood itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (8), Skokie (5).
1 of them name an operator in the record: 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 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lincolnwood
The readers mapped around Lincolnwood break down as 19 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2023; the most recent in May 2026.
- West Touhy Avenue — 6 readers
- Crawford Avenue — 2 readers
- Lincoln Avenue — 2 readers
- West Arthur Avenue — 2 readers
- North Lincoln Avenue — 2 readers
- North Pulaski Road — 2 readers
- West Peterson Avenue — 1 reader
- North McCormick Boulevard — 1 reader
- Central Park Avenue — 1 reader
- Skokie Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Pratt Avenue — 1 reader
- East Prairie Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Lincolnwood — all on the live map above.
Lincolnwood IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lincolnwood IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 23 other agencies.
Lincolnwood 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, 2 parking. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (1).
What’s watching Lincolnwood
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 Lincolnwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lincolnwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lincolnwood
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 Lincolnwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).