Flock & ALPR Cameras in Uptown, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Uptown — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Uptown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Uptown itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (16).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (10). 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 Uptown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Uptown
The readers mapped around Uptown break down as 12 of unrecorded make, 3 Motorola Solutions, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive — 4 readers
- North Sheridan Road — 2 readers
- North Marine Drive — 2 readers
- North Recreation Drive — 1 reader
- West Foster Avenue — 1 reader
- Wilson Avenue Access Path — 1 reader
- Buena Avenue Access Path — 1 reader
- West Lawrence Avenue — 1 reader
- West Montrose Avenue — 1 reader
- West Addison Street — 1 reader
- West Ainslie Street — 1 reader
Uptown 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, 3 street. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (10).
Camera activity around Uptown, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Uptown. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Uptown
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 Uptown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Uptown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Uptown
What you can do in Uptown
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 Uptown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).