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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Morgan Park, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Morgan Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Morgan Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Morgan Park itself.

The rest sit in Chicago (7), Calumet Park (1).

1 of them name an operator in the record: Illinois State Police (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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Reported cameras nearby
#285
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 8 reported cameras around Morgan Park, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Morgan Park

No new reports near Morgan Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Morgan Park

The readers mapped around Morgan Park break down as 5 Motorola Solutions, 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • I 57 — 2 readers
  • South Western Avenue — 2 readers
  • South Marshfield Avenue — 1 reader
  • West 115th Street — 1 reader
  • South Halsted Street — 1 reader
  • West 103rd Street — 1 reader

Morgan 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Illinois State Police (1).

Camera activity around Morgan Park, last 30 days

3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Morgan Park. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.

What’s watching Morgan 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 Morgan Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Morgan Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Morgan Park

What you can do in Morgan 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.

Cameras near Morgan Park

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).