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Illinois has 7,674 mapped plate readers. 5,889 carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
Rockford has the most (178), then Decatur (127) and Elgin (125). The first Flock-tagged one was mapped Apr 24, 2023. A plate reader keeps a record of each car that passes.
See who runs them · Cameras in Illinois · What is a Flock camera? · Flock cameras in the US · Other Flock camera maps
Flock cameras in Illinois by city
Rockford 178 Decatur 127 Elgin 125 Springfield 125 Chicago 99 Joliet 90 Champaign 86 Peoria 80 Wheaton 64 Elk Grove Village 59 South Barrington 58 Waukegan 54 Naperville 53 Evergreen Park 46 Aurora 42 Plainfield 42 Pekin 41 Cicero 38 Palatine 38 Schaumburg 37 Loves Park 36 Northbrook 36 Normal 35 Oak Lawn 35 Arlington Heights 33 Berwyn 33 Rosemont 33 Romeoville 33 Lake Forest 32 Wood Dale 31 Murphysboro 30 Niles 28 Elmhurst 27 Sycamore 27 Highland Park 26 Rantoul 26 Skokie 26 Inverness 25 Danville 25 Quincy 25 Wilmette 25 Gurnee 24 Barrington 24 Mount Prospect 24 St. Charles 24 Bolingbrook 23 Belleville 23 East Peoria 23 Glendale Heights 23 Vernon Hills 23 Zion 23 Frankfort 22 Bloomington 21 Marion 21 Glenview 21 Mahomet 21 Carbondale 20 Burr Ridge 20 New Lenox 20 Rock Island 20 Orland Park 19 Morton Grove 19 Woodridge 18 Carol Stream 18 Willowbrook 18 Oak Forest 18 Morton 18 Addison 17 Lombard 17 Machesney Park 17 Markham 17 Barrington Hills 17 Cherry Valley 17 Lake in the Hills 16 West Chicago 16 Warrenville 16 Country Club Hills 16 Flossmoor 16 Lake Carroll 16 Matteson 16 Sauk Village 16 Alton 15 Bradley 15 Bensenville 15 East Moline 15 Lincolnshire 15 Peru 15 Shiloh 15 Wheeling 15 Woodstock 15 Kankakee 14 Countryside 14 Glen Carbon 14 Hillside 14 North Riverside 14 Stickney 14 Darien 14 Lansing 14 Lisle 14 Melrose Park 14 North Chicago 14 Westmont 14 Homewood 14 Moline 14 Shorewood 14 Streamwood 14 Itasca 13 Bloomingdale 13 Bourbonnais 13 Antioch 13 Braidwood 13 Crete 13 Harvey 13 Libertyville 13 Ottawa 13 Rolling Meadows 12 Buffalo Grove 12 Oakbrook Terrace 12 Crystal Lake 12 Lincolnwood 12 Westchester 12 Bartlett 12 Crest Hill 12 Freeport 12 Galesburg 12 Morris 12 Olympia Fields 12 Oswego 12 Pingree Grove 12 River Grove 12 Tremont 12 Lemont 11 Glen Ellyn 11 Harrisburg 11 Franklin Park 11 Hoffman Estates 11 Huntley 11 Mattoon 11 Blue Island 11 Forest View 11 Glencoe 11 Hawthorn Woods 11 Justice 11 Midlothian 11 Northlake 11 Round Lake Beach 11 Summit 11 Urbana 10 Troy 10 Burbank 10 Charleston 10 Effingham 10 Long Grove 10 Minooka 10 Mokena 10 Northfield 10 Park Ridge 10 Sterling 10 Tilton 10 Wayne 10 Chicago Heights 9 Fairview Heights 9 Roselle 9 Hanover Park 9 Carpentersville 9 Hodgkins 9 Lyons 9 Macomb 9 Manhattan 9 Milan 9 Monee 9 Mundelein 9 Edwardsville 8 Collinsville 8 Manteno 8 Oak Brook 8 Villa Park 8 Deerfield 8 Herrin 8 Homer Glen 8 North Aurora 8 Richton Park 8 Vienna 8 West Dundee 8 DeKalb 7 O'Fallon 7 Channahon 7 Des Plaines 7 Palos Hills 7 Fox Lake 7 Rochelle 7 Bedford Park 7 Bridgeview 7 Deer Park 7 Dolton 7 East Dundee 7 Harwood Heights 7 Indian Head Park 7 Jacksonville 7 Merrionette Park 7 Montgomery 7 Oglesby 7 Peotone 7 Robbins 7 Schiller Park 7 South Elgin 7 Sugar Grove 7 Taylorville 7 Alsip 6 East Hazel Crest 6 McHenry 6 Richmond 6 Silvis 6 Benton 6 Cary 6 Forsyth 6 Glenwood 6 Green Oaks 6 Hazel Crest 6 Hickory Hills 6 Johnsburg 6 Kenilworth 6 Norridge 6 Riverdale 6 Rock Falls 6 Savoy 6 South Beloit 6 University Park 6 Winnetka 6 Belvidere 5 Lake Zurich 5 Calumet City 5 Palos Park 5 Boulder Hill 5 Cortland 5 Diamond 5 Dixon 5 Highwood 5 Hinckley 5 Kildeer 5 Lake Villa 5 Marseilles 5 Metamora 5 Metropolis 5 Monticello 5 Orland Hills 5 Palos Heights 5 Peoria Heights 5 Prospect Heights 5 Rockton 5 Roscoe 5 South Chicago Heights 5 Streator 5 Winfield 5 Winnebago 5 Yorkville 5 Evanston 4 Calumet Park 4 Broadview 4 Algonquin 4 Batavia 4 La Grange 4 Lakewood 4 Lynwood 4 Bellwood 4 Burnham 4 Clinton 4 Coal Valley 4 Crestwood 4 Dongola 4 Dwight 4 El Paso 4 Fairmont 4 Flora 4 Gardner 4 Hometown 4 LaSalle 4 McCook 4 New Milford 4 Pontiac 4 Prairie Grove 4 Riverton 4 Riverwoods 4 Round Lake Park 4 Sleepy Hollow 4 Southern View 4 Steger 4 Vandalia 4 Washington 4 Willow Springs 4 Wilmington 4 Mount Vernon 3 Tinley Park 3 Godfrey 3 Maywood 3 Downers Grove 3 Hinsdale 3 Wood River 3 Grayslake 3 Lockport 3 Mascoutah 3 Spring Valley 3 Granite City 3 Bartonville 3 Chatham 3 Lebanon 3 Riverside 3 Anna 3 Beecher 3 Canton 3 Carterville 3 Caseyville 3 Creve Coeur 3 De Pue 3 Energy 3 Ford Heights 3 Georgetown 3 Golf 3 Greenville 3 Hennepin 3 Ingalls Park 3 Kansas 3 Kewanee 3 Lake Bluff 3 Lindenhurst 3 Mount Carmel 3 Mount Zion 3 Park Forest 3 Pittsfield 3 Plano 3 Posen 3 Rockdale 3 Sandwich 3 Sherman 3 West City 3 East St. Louis 2 Worth 2 Pontoon Beach 2 Forest Park 2 Crainville 2 Altamont 2 Arcola 2 Ashmore 2 Atwood 2 Beach Park 2 Beardstown 2 Bement 2 Berkeley 2 Bethany 2 Breese 2 Byron 2 Carmi 2 East Carondelet 2 Gages Lake 2 Geneseo 2 Germantown Hills 2 Gilman 2 Glasford 2 Hainesville 2 Johnston City 2 Lacon 2 La Grange Park 2 Lake Barrington 2 Lakemoor 2 Livingston 2 Mazon 2 Mendota 2 Milford 2 Monmouth 2 Moweaqua 2 Oakwood 2 Princeton 2 St. Joseph 2 Savanna 2 Sullivan 2 Tuscola 2 Villa Grove 2 Watseka 2 Winthrop Harbor 2 Swansea 1 Western Springs 1 Cahokia Heights 1 Madison 1 Clarendon Hills 1 Divernon 1 Waterloo 1 Big Rock 1 Jerseyville 1 Paxton 1 Arenzville 1 Aroma Park 1 Arthur 1 Auburn 1 Baldwin 1 Bannockburn 1 Belgium 1 Blue Mound 1 Brocton 1 Brookfield 1 Brooklyn 1 Brownstown 1 Bull Valley 1 Burlington 1 Burtons Bridge 1 Camargo 1 Campton Hills 1 Carbon Cliff 1 Carlyle 1 Casey 1 Cerro Gordo 1 Chebanse 1 Chillicothe 1 Cissna Park 1 Clifton 1 Crystal Lawns 1 Cuba 1 Davis Junction 1 Detroit 1 Dupo 1 Edgewood 1 Eldorado 1 Elwood 1 Eureka 1 Farmer City 1 Fulton 1 Geneva 1 Goodfield 1 Grafton 1 Grand Detour 1 Greenfield 1 Greenup 1 Hampton 1 Harrison 1 Harristown 1 Henry 1 Heritage Lake 1 Hopkins Park 1 Hurst 1 Hutsonville 1 Illiopolis 1 Island Lake 1 Iuka 1 Jonesboro 1 Kinderhook 1 Knoxville 1 Ladd 1 Lake of the Woods 1 Lena 1 Lockport Heights 1 Long Creek 1 Lostant 1 Mackinaw 1 Marshall 1 Mettawa 1 Montrose 1 New Baden 1 New Burnside 1 Newton 1 North Utica 1 Oak Grove 1 Oakland 1 Old Mill Creek 1 Paris 1 Payson 1 Pecatonica 1 Pocahontas 1 Polo 1 Preston Heights 1 Ripley 1 Rose Hill 1 St. Elmo 1 Sammons Point 1 Spaulding 1 Thompsonville 1 Thornton 1 Toluca 1 Tower Hill 1 Trenton 1 Warrensburg 1 Wenona 1 West Peoria 1 West Union 1
A city links to its own page once enough readers are mapped there.
Plate readers mapped in Illinois each month
Plate readers of any maker added to the map each month, not only Flock-tagged ones. Lighter bars are estimates from the first-mapped dates of current points.
CamsAhead started its daily change log on October 22, 2026. How the map changed.
Flock-tagged readers first mapped each month
Each row counts the Flock-tagged readers first mapped that month, newest first. Months with none are left out. Each one carries the date it was first mapped.
| Month | First mapped that month | Top cities |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 136 | 15 in Rockford and 8 in Chicago |
| Sep 2026 | 223 | 73 in Elgin and 12 in Rockford |
| Aug 2026 | 571 | 49 in Elgin and 23 in Murphysboro |
| Jul 2026 | 407 | 13 in Rockford and 11 in Chicago |
| Jun 2026 | 312 | 13 in Belleville and 11 in Plainfield |
| May 2026 | 227 | 18 in Rockford and 9 in Danville |
| Apr 2026 | 214 | 10 in Joliet and 6 in Rockford |
| Mar 2026 | 348 | 18 in Decatur and 13 in Lake Carroll |
| Feb 2026 | 274 | 15 in Evergreen Park and 10 in Rockford |
| Jan 2026 | 286 | 13 in Wheaton and 9 in Zion |
| Dec 2025 | 458 | 29 in South Barrington and 23 in Rockford |
| Nov 2025 | 522 | 24 in Waukegan and 20 in Rockford |
Who runs the Flock cameras in Illinois
Most don't say who runs them. The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists 258 agencies in Illinois that use plate readers.
- Champaign Police Department 60
- Private operators, not named 35
- Wood Dale Police Department 28
- Highland Park Police Department 15
- Plainfield Police 12
- Bensenville Police Department 7
- Mahomet Police Department 6
- [Marseilles City Police Department] 5
- [Rockton Police Department] 5
- [Roscoe Police Department] 5
Plate reader law in Illinois
| Topic | Illinois |
|---|---|
| Status | Law |
| Law | 625 ILCS 5/2-130 (P.A. 103-540, eff. 1-1-24); 5 ILCS 140/7.5(fff); 605 ILCS 140 (Expressway Camera Act) |
| What it does | Bars plate-reader users from sharing data for enforcing laws against reproductive or lawful health care or on immigration status, and requires a written declaration before sharing with out-of-state police. |
| Who it can be shared with | No sharing with an out-of-state law enforcement agency without first obtaining its written declaration that the data will not be used for the barred purposes (625 ILCS 5/2-130(c)) |
| Public record? | ALPR information 'shall be held confidentially to the fullest extent permitted by law' (§ 2-130(d)); Illinois State Police ALPR information is exempt under 5 ILCS 140/7.5(fff), which is inoperative on and after July 1, 2028 |
| Public records law | Illinois Freedom of Information Act, 5 ILCS 140 |
| Checked |
See Illinois plate reader law next to the other states.
Flock cameras in Illinois: questions
How many Flock cameras are in Illinois?
5,889 plate readers tagged Flock Safety are on the map in Illinois, as of November 7, 2026. The real number may be higher or lower: the map shows only the cameras mapped so far.
Which cities in Illinois have the most Flock cameras?
By mapped count: Rockford (178), Decatur (127) and Elgin (125). The city list on this page shows each city with a Flock-tagged reader.
Is each mapped camera still there?
Not always. A point shows where someone mapped a camera. 30 of the 5,889 carry a date when a volunteer last checked them on the ground.
Illinois's plate reader data
From OpenStreetMap, under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. A free copy goes to anyone who asks: how it is made and how to ask.
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9,528 cameras listed or mapped in Illinois so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- 625 ILCS 5/2-130 (P.A. 103-540, eff. 1-1-24); 5 ILCS 140/7.5(fff); 605 ILCS 140 (Expressway Camera Act): plate reader law, checked Oct 25, 2026
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Open Government Guide: public records law, checked Oct 25, 2026
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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