Flock & ALPR Cameras in Willow Springs, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Willow 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 Willow Springs, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Willow Springs itself.
The rest sit in Hodgkins (2), Lyons Township (2), Palos Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Willow Springs
The readers mapped around Willow Springs break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Willow Springs Road — 3 readers
- Archer Avenue — 2 readers
- Rust Trail — 1 reader
- UPS Way — 1 reader
- West 87th Street — 1 reader
Willow Springs IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Willow Springs IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 99 other agencies.
Willow 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 8 traffic.
What’s watching Willow 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 Willow Springs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Willow Springs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Willow 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 Willow Springs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).