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Cameras in Waukegan, IL
54 mapped plate readers, 50 traffic cameras and a red light camera program in Waukegan.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
Waukegan, by camera type.
Waukegan: 54 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Gurnee 28, Lake Forest 42, Highland Park 28 and Northbrook 36.
Speed cameras in Waukegan
None listed in Waukegan. Nearest city program in Illinois: Chicago, about 21 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2026).
Red light cameras in Waukegan
Waukegan runs a red light camera program (running, as of Nov 2023), not yet on this map.
- Red light cameras · Running (as of Nov 2023) City of Waukegan, Red Light Running statistical analysis report (Nov 13 2023) ↗ · current status not dated
The law, in short:
625 ILCS 5/11-208.6 (red light), 5/11-208.8 (speed safety zones, cities at least 1M only), work zones (citation not yet confirmed).
License plate readers in Waukegan
54 plate readers are on the map in Waukegan, and 54 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Nov 21, 2024 to Aug 26, 2026. 31 of the 54 were first mapped in 2025, with 24 in November alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Waukegan Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Waukegan
EyesOnFlock lists no transparency portal for the Waukegan Police Department (Oct 14, 2026). It posts no sharing list, so who can search reads from its cameras is not stated. The sharing lists of 139 agencies name it, so it can search their reads.
Waukegan Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- Not stated
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 139
No transparency portal listed, Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Waukegan
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Waukegan
From Illinois Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Waukegan
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156,883 cameras listed or mapped 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.
- City of Waukegan, Red Light Running statistical analysis report (Nov 13 2023): red light camera program, running, as of Nov 2023
- 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
- Illinois Department of Transportation: Camera locations: Illinois DOT, CC BY-SA 2.0. Read November 7, 2026.
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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