Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Chicago, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around West Chicago — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West Chicago
The readers mapped around West Chicago break down as 20 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Joliet Street — 3 readers
- West Roosevelt Road — 3 readers
- North Avenue — 2 readers
- Sunset Avenue — 2 readers
- South Neltnor Boulevard — 2 readers
- West Washington Street — 1 reader
- East Washington Street — 1 reader
- West Chicago — 1 reader
- North Neltnor Boulevard — 1 reader
- Illinois Route 59 — 1 reader
- Hawthorne Lane — 1 reader
- 200 — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around West Chicago — all on the live map above.
West Chicago IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, West Chicago IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 71 other agencies.
West Chicago in the DuPage County picture
DuPage County has 626 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #278 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13% nationally. That’s across 927,263 residents and 2,444 road miles. By road density that is 0.26 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic.
Camera activity around West Chicago, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Chicago. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching West 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 West Chicago — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Chicago (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Chicago
- Former Itasca Police Officer And Former West Chicago Officer Charged With Misusing Flock Cameras
- Former Itasca, West Chicago police officers charged with felony misuse of Flock cameras
- Former Itasca, West Chicago police officers charged over alleged misuse of Flock cameras
- Former Itasca Police Officer and West Chicago Police Officer Charged with Official Misconduct for Alleged Unauthorized Use of Flock Cameras
What you can do in West 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 West Chicago
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).