Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mundelein, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Mundelein — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mundelein, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Mundelein itself.
The rest sit in Hawthorn Woods (1), Vernon Hills (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Mundelein in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mundelein
The readers mapped around Mundelein break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Midlothian Road — 2 readers
- West Hawley Street — 1 reader
- West State Route 60 — 1 reader
- Allanson Road — 1 reader
- South Butterfield Road — 1 reader
- IL 176 — 1 reader
- North Lake Street — 1 reader
- Ivanhoe Road — 1 reader
Mundelein IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mundelein IL PD runs 11 cameras of its own, has logged 149 plate-database searches, has captured 400,705 vehicle records. Its network connects to 95 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Mundelein in the Lake County picture
Lake County has 346 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #549 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 711,885 residents and 2,737 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Mundelein, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Mundelein. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Mundelein
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 Mundelein — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mundelein (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Mundelein
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 Mundelein
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).