Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rosemont, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 344 automated license plate readers in and around Rosemont — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 344 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rosemont, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 22 of them sit inside Rosemont itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (316), Des Plaines (6).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Rosemont Police Department (2), Flock Safety (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 Rosemont in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
📷 749 new license plate readers just reported around Rosemont, IL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Rosemont
Where the cameras are in Rosemont
The readers mapped around Rosemont break down as 30 Flock Safety, 4 Genetec, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Rosemont Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West Higgins Road — 6 readers
- North River Road — 5 readers
- O'Hare International Terminal — 4 readers
- Lyndon Street — 3 readers
- Mannheim Road — 2 readers
- Chestnut Street — 2 readers
- South Des Plaines River Road — 2 readers
- Devon Avenue — 2 readers
- Ethel Court — 1 reader
- Barry Avenue — 1 reader
- Lunt Avenue — 1 reader
- Willow Creek Drive — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Rosemont — all on the live map above.
Rosemont IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Rosemont IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 86 other agencies.
Rosemont 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 26 traffic. Operators named on the record: Rosemont Police Department (2), Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Rosemont
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 Rosemont — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rosemont (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rosemont
- 440 license plate readers reported removed near Rosemont, IL
- 749 new license plate readers reported around Rosemont, IL
What you can do in Rosemont
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 Rosemont
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).