Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lower West Side, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Lower West Side — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lower West Side, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lower West Side itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lower West Side in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 11:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lower West Side
The readers mapped around Lower West Side break down as 2 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Ashland Avenue — 2 readers
- South Racine Avenue — 1 reader
- South Western Avenue — 1 reader
- South Morgan Street — 1 reader
Lower West Side 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 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Lower West Side, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lower West Side. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Lower West Side
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 Lower West Side — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lower West Side (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lower West Side
What you can do in Lower West Side
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.
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Cameras near Lower West Side
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).