Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Town, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around West Town — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Town, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Town itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (25).
20 of them name an operator in the record: Illinois State Police (11), Chicago Police Department (7), 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 Town in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Town
The readers mapped around West Town break down as 13 of unrecorded make, 5 Motorola Solutions, 5 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police, Chicago Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2022; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Ashland Avenue — 5 readers
- Eisenhower Expressway — 4 readers
- Kennedy Expressway — 3 readers
- Kennedy Express Reversable Lane — 3 readers
- West Division Street — 3 readers
- North Ogden Avenue — 2 readers
- West Congress Parkway — 2 readers
- West Van Buren Street — 1 reader
- West Chicago Avenue — 1 reader
- Chicago — 1 reader
West Town 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 19 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Illinois State Police (11), Chicago Police Department (7), Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching West Town
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 Town — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Town (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Town
- 4 new license plate readers reported around West Town, IL
- Joliet Township highway commissioner decides to revoke Flock Safety camera permits
- Joliet Township official weighing revocation of Flock camera permits on township roads
What you can do in West Town
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 Town
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).