Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wheeling, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Wheeling — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wheeling, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Wheeling itself.
The rest sit in Buffalo Grove (2), Northbrook (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Wheeling in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wheeling
The readers mapped around Wheeling break down as 13 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Milwaukee Avenue — 2 readers
- Wheeling — 1 reader
- North Wolf Road — 1 reader
- Northgate Parkway — 1 reader
- Russett Lane — 1 reader
- South Wolf Road — 1 reader
- South Wheeling Road — 1 reader
- South Elmhurst Road — 1 reader
- West Dundee Road — 1 reader
- Community Boulevard — 1 reader
- East Lake Cook Road — 1 reader
- East Dundee Road — 1 reader
Wheeling IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wheeling IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 82 other agencies.
Wheeling 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 13 traffic.
Camera activity around Wheeling, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wheeling. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Wheeling
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 Wheeling — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wheeling (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wheeling
What you can do in Wheeling
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 Wheeling
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).