Cameras / Illinois / Machesney Park
License plate readers in Machesney Park, IL
Volunteers have documented 20 automated license plate readers inside Machesney Park. That is the 65th-largest total among the 161 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.3% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.6 per square mile places Machesney Park near the middle of the 2,231 cities indexed nationally. Not every operator recorded here is a public agency — volunteers also logged Lowe's.
Updated August 14, 2026.
20
readers documented
1.6
per square mile
65th
of 161 indexed Illinois cities
0.3%
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 Safety17 · 85%
- Unknown3 · 15%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 13 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Lowe's (2). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (1)
- Coverage area
- 12.7 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · Illinois ALPR law
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