Speed & red-light cameras
Chicago runs 211 speed cameras and 300 red-light cameras. This map shows where they sit — cameras per square mile — and how many violations each records per day. Every rate is normalized per camera, so a community area is never ranked higher simply for hosting more of them. Search your address or click any community area, and switch between the two views.
How to read this map
Cameras per square mile counts the speed and red-light cameras located in a community area, divided by its land area. It shows where the enforcement infrastructure is concentrated.
Violations per camera per daytakes the violations recorded over the trailing year and divides by the area’s cameras and the days in the window. Normalizing per camera is deliberate: a neighborhood with two busy cameras can post a higher per-camera rate than one with twenty quiet ones, and that is the honest comparison. The drawer always shows the camera counts behind each rate.
Both views use a neutralcolor ramp — they describe where cameras are and how much they ticket, not whether a neighborhood or its drivers are “worse.” Independent reporting has documented that automated enforcement falls unevenly across the city; this map presents the underlying counts so you can see the distribution for yourself.
Camera counts are asserted against the City’s inventories (211 speed / 300 red-light). Violations are matched to cameras and rolled up by location; a small number of speed-camera violation records reference decommissioned cameras and are not placed. Source: City of Chicago speed- and red-light-camera locations and violations. See methodology.