Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Lawndale, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around North Lawndale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Lawndale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside North Lawndale itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (13), Cicero (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (5). 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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No new reports near North Lawndale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in North Lawndale
The readers mapped around North Lawndale break down as 9 of unrecorded make, 4 Motorola Solutions, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2024; the most recent in May 2026.
- West Ogden Avenue — 4 readers
- South Homan Avenue — 2 readers
- South Pulaski Road — 2 readers
- South Independence Boulevard — 1 reader
- Sacramento Bikeway — 1 reader
- Douglas Boulevard Bikeway — 1 reader
- West 16th Street — 1 reader
- West Arthington Street — 1 reader
- South Kostner Avenue — 1 reader
North Lawndale 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 10 traffic, 4 street. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (5).
What’s watching North Lawndale
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 Lawndale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Lawndale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in North Lawndale
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 Lawndale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).