Flock & ALPR Cameras in River Forest, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around River Forest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
River Forest is on the record here. A River Forest council member explained their vote to cancel the village's Flock camera program.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of River Forest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside River Forest itself.
The rest sit in Elmwood Park (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Village of River Forest (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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No new reports near River Forest in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in River Forest
The readers mapped around River Forest break down as 5 Axis Communications, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Village of River Forest. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Avenue — 3 readers
- Bonnie Brae Place — 2 readers
- Chicago Avenue — 2 readers
- Lake Street — 1 reader
River Forest 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 4 traffic, 2 foot traffic. Operators named on the record: Village of River Forest (1).
Camera activity around River Forest, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for River Forest. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching River Forest
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 River Forest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to River Forest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around River Forest
- 2 new license plate readers reported around River Forest, IL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around River Forest, IL
- New reports emerge on Border Patrol use of Flock cameras
- Why I voted to cancel Flock cameras
What you can do in River Forest
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 River Forest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).