Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Chicago, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around South Chicago — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Chicago, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Chicago itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (5).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (3). 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 South Chicago in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:36 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Chicago
The readers mapped around South Chicago break down as 3 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in May 2026.
- South Lake Shore Drive — 2 readers
- East 95th Street — 1 reader
- East 87th Street — 1 reader
- East 103rd Street — 1 reader
South Chicago 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 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (3).
What’s watching South 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 South Chicago — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Chicago (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Chicago
- Chicago Ridge adding license plate readers, new restaurant and farmers market
- Chicago to test new gunshot detection system on South Side
- Chicago shooting: Vigil to be held for Sierra Evans, woman found fatally shot on South Avenue N in East Side
- Chicago police fire shots at juvenile on South Side while responding to ShotSpotter alert: COPA
What you can do in South 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 South Chicago
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).