Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Garfield Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 46 automated license plate readers in and around West Garfield Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 46 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Garfield Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Garfield Park itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (45), Cicero (1).
25 of them name an operator in the record: Illinois State Police (13), Chicago Police Department (10), Flock Safety (2). 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 West Garfield Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Garfield Park
The readers mapped around West Garfield Park break down as 27 of unrecorded make, 17 Motorola Solutions, 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police, Chicago Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Eisenhower Expressway — 11 readers
- North Pulaski Road — 4 readers
- West 5th Avenue — 3 readers
- South Cicero Avenue — 3 readers
- West Congress Parkway — 3 readers
- West Harrison Street — 3 readers
- West Division Street — 2 readers
- West Washington Boulevard — 2 readers
- West Chicago Avenue — 2 readers
- North Hamlin Avenue — 2 readers
- North Cicero Avenue — 2 readers
- Lake Street Bikeway — 2 readers
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around West Garfield Park — all on the live map above.
West Garfield Park 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 40 traffic. Operators named on the record: Illinois State Police (13), Chicago Police Department (10), Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around West Garfield Park, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Garfield Park. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching West Garfield Park
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 Garfield Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Garfield Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Garfield Park
- 2 new license plate readers reported around West Garfield Park, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around West Garfield Park, IL
What you can do in West Garfield Park
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 Garfield Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).