Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Chicago, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around North Chicago — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Chicago, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside North Chicago itself.
The rest sit in Waukegan (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near North Chicago in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in North Chicago
The readers mapped around North Chicago break down as 14 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- 10th Street — 3 readers
- Martin Luther King Jr. Drive — 2 readers
- 13th Street — 1 reader
- Robert McClory Bike Path — 1 reader
- South Sheridan Road — 1 reader
- Dugdale Road — 1 reader
- North Chicago — 1 reader
- 14th Street — 1 reader
- Lewis Avenue — 1 reader
- Hillcrest Avenue — 1 reader
- Broadway — 1 reader
- Hervey Avenue — 1 reader
North Chicago IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, North Chicago IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 58 other agencies.
North Chicago 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 14 traffic.
What’s watching North Chicago
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 North Chicago — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Chicago (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Chicago
- North Chicago, Waukegan taking a variety of measures to fight gun violence
- Former Itasca, West Chicago cops accused of misusing Flock license plate cameras
- West Chicago police officer on leave after police review finds evidence of Flock cameras abuse
- 2 Chicago men charged after license plate reader alerts Northbrook police to stolen vehicle
What you can do in North Chicago
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 North Chicago
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).