Flock & ALPR Cameras in Western Springs, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Western Springs — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Western Springs, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Western Springs itself.
The rest sit in Hinsdale (3), La Grange (3), Proviso Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Jan 27, 2025 On the agenda: Western Springs President and Board of Trustees Meeting — License Plate Reader (Jan 27)
- Jan 13, 2025 On the agenda: Western Springs President and Board of Trustees Meeting — License Plate Reader (Jan 13)
- Jan 13, 2025 In the minutes: Western Springs Public Health and Safety Committee, License Plate Reader (Jan 13)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Western Springs in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Western Springs
The readers mapped around Western Springs break down as 5 Motorola Solutions, 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- East Ogden Avenue — 3 readers
- Ogden Avenue — 2 readers
- South Willow Springs Road — 1 reader
- Garden Market Street — 1 reader
- West Ogden Avenue — 1 reader
- West 47th Street — 1 reader
Western Springs 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 5 traffic.
What’s watching Western Springs
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 Western Springs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Western Springs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Western Springs
- On the agenda: Western Springs President and Board of Trustees Meeting — License Plate Reader (Jan 27)
- On the agenda: Western Springs President and Board of Trustees Meeting — License Plate Reader (Jan 13)
- In the minutes: Western Springs Public Health and Safety Committee, License Plate Reader (Jan 13)
What you can do in Western Springs
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 Western Springs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).