Red Light Camera Expansion Halted By Budget Cuts
Chicago's worst budget crisis in modern history has put the brakes on plans to expand the city's Big Brother network of red-light cameras to more than...
Chicago's worst budget crisis in modern history has put the brakes on plans to expand the city's Big Brother network of red-light cameras to more than...
Daily Herald | Marni Pyke | Posted 08.20.2009 | Chicago
Lifesaver or Big Brother? It's a dichotomy that surfaced frequently during a Daily Herald investigation of the red-light camera explosion in the subur...
Chicago Tribune | Bob Secter and Andrew Zajac | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago
On Thanksgiving eve in 2005, a Metra express train plowed into five cars at the busy Grand Avenue crossing in west suburban Elmwood Park, leaving behi...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 07.05.2009 | Chicago
Motorists nabbed by Chicago's Big Brother network of red-light cameras already get slapped with $100 fines. If the City Council's most powerful alderm...
WBBM Newsradio | Posted 06.06.2009 | Chicago
These days red light cameras seem to be almost everywhere. Maybe you've been caught by one or seen the flash when another driver runs a red light. Wel...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago
Chicago could rake in "at least $200 million" a year -- and wipe out the entire projected deficit for 2009 -- by using its vast network of redlight an...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 02.05.2009 | Chicago
A federal appeals court has given the green light to red-light cameras that have pumped out more than a million Chicago tickets and generated $100 mil...
NBC 5 | Matt Bartosik | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago
Some people will be receiving new cameras as gifts this holiday season. The city of Chicago is getting new cameras also. Seven more intersections will...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago
The Arizona company whose red-light cameras have pumped out more than a million Chicago tickets will be paid $32 million just to maintain its first 13...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago