Chicago Red Light Cameras

Red Light Camera Expansion Halted By Budget Cuts

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago


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...

Cops Mixed On Red Light Cameras

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...

Clout Pays Off For Red Light Camera Company

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...

Alderman Wants Traffic School For Drivers Caught By Red Light Cameras

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...

Avoid Tickets? Red Light Camera Detector On The Market

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...

Company Seeking City Business Says More Traffic Cameras Could Erase City Deficit

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...

Court Ruling Clears Way For More Red-Light Cameras

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...

City Installing More Red Light Cameras

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...

Red Light Camera Company Gets $32M Payday

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...