License plate readers in Chicago, IL
Volunteers have documented 1,322 automated license plate readers inside Chicago. No other Illinois city in this index has more, and Chicago alone accounts for 16% of every reader documented in the state. At 5.8 per square mile it is more densely covered than 91% of the 2,395 US cities indexed nationally. Motorola Solutions holds the largest share here at 21%, rather than Flock Safety, which leads in most cities in this index.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 26, 2026.
1,322
readers documented
5.8
per square mile
1st
of 180 indexed Illinois cities · 2nd of 2,395 nationally
16%
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 Safety93 · 7%
- Motorola Solutions281 · 21%
- Genetec61 · 5%
- Leonardo/ELSAG5 · 0%
- Neology1 · 0%
- Other vendors527 · 40%
- Unknown354 · 27%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 1,111 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Chicago Police Department (225), Illinois State Police (58), University of Chicago Police Department (10). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- traffic signal (152), pole (68), street lamp (67), wall (48), bridge (25)
- Coverage area
- 227.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Motorola Solutions camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · Illinois's ALPR statute
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, or download the aggregates in bulk.