License plate readers in Chicago, IL
Volunteers have documented 703 automated license plate readers inside Chicago. No other Illinois city in this index has more, and Chicago alone accounts for 10% of every reader documented in the state. At 3.1 per square mile it is more densely covered than 79% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Motorola Solutions holds the largest share here at 32%, rather than Flock Safety, which leads in most cities in this index. Where a mount was recorded, volunteers logged 146 on traffic signals and 67 on poles.
Updated August 14, 2026.
703
readers documented
3.1
per square mile
1st
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
10%
of Illinois’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety83 · 12%
- Motorola Solutions227 · 32%
- Genetec43 · 6%
- Leonardo/ELSAG3 · 0%
- Other vendors1 · 0%
- Unknown346 · 49%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 494 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Chicago Police Department (219), Illinois State Police (58), University of Chicago Police Department (7). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- traffic signal (146), pole (67), street lamp (65), wall (48), bridge (25)
- Coverage area
- 227.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Illinois ALPR law
These locations were documented in the field by OpenStreetMap volunteers and refresh automatically every six hours. They are evidence of where cameras have been seen — not a complete or official inventory, and cameras may have been added or removed since documentation. Corrections happen upstream: edit OpenStreetMap and this page will update. Read more in our methodology.