Flock & ALPR Cameras in McKinley Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 63 automated license plate readers in and around McKinley Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 63 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of McKinley Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside McKinley Park itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (63).
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 20 Axis communications camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Axis communications camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Axis communications camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Axis communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 91 new license plate readers just reported around McKinley Park, IL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #McKinleyPark
Where the cameras are in McKinley Park
The readers mapped around McKinley Park break down as 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department. Every report here dates to Jan 2024.
- South Ashland Avenue — 1 reader
McKinley 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 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (1).
What’s watching McKinley 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 McKinley Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to McKinley Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around McKinley Park
- 32 license plate readers reported removed near McKinley Park, IL
- 91 new license plate readers reported around McKinley Park, IL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around McKinley Park, IL
What you can do in McKinley 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 McKinley Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).