Chicago

Licence-plate readers in Chicago

1,337 licence-plate readers are mapped inside the limits of Chicago, 97 of them by Flock Safety. 831 have the direction they face mapped, so the map draws where each looks.

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Mapped
1,337
By Flock Safety
7%
Direction mapped
62%
Among cities in United States
3 of 2,726

Who runs them

  • Chicago Police Department225
  • Illinois State Police58
  • University of Chicago Police Department8
  • The Home Depot4
  • University of Illinois Chicago2

Who makes them

  • Axis Communications537
  • Motorola Solutions283
  • Flock Safety97
  • Genetec61
  • Leonardo5

The readers nearest the centre

Good to know

  • Counted from OpenStreetMap as DeFlock published it on Oct 14, 2026. Volunteers map readers as they find them, so some are missing and a few may already be gone.
  • Counted inside the Census Bureau’s 2024 boundary for Chicago.
  • 298 readers have an operator mapped; the rest are run by someone OpenStreetMap doesn’t name.
  • The cone on the map shows the mapped direction; its width and reach are typical for these cameras, not measured.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Licence-plate readers (ALPR), Live cameras

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