Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Elsdon, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around West Elsdon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Elsdon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Elsdon itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (8), Central Stickney (1), Forest View (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 12 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West Elsdon
The readers mapped around West Elsdon break down as 6 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- South Cicero Avenue — 3 readers
- West 55th Street — 2 readers
- West 50th Street — 1 reader
- South Pulaski Road — 1 reader
- West 47th Street — 1 reader
- South Kilpatrick Avenue — 1 reader
West Elsdon 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 8 traffic.
What’s watching West Elsdon
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 Elsdon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Elsdon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in West Elsdon
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.
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Cameras near West Elsdon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).