Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Chicago Heights, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around South Chicago Heights — 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 South Chicago Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside South Chicago Heights itself.
The rest sit in Chicago Heights (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near South Chicago Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Chicago Heights
The readers mapped around South Chicago Heights break down as 5 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Chicago Road — 3 readers
- East End Avenue — 2 readers
- Union Avenue — 2 readers
- West 26th Street — 1 reader
- Miller Avenue — 1 reader
South Chicago Heights IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Chicago Heights IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 16 other agencies.
South Chicago Heights 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 9 traffic.
What’s watching South Chicago Heights
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 South Chicago Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Chicago Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South Chicago Heights
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 South Chicago Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).