Speed cameras and red light cameras in the Chicago City Council

Automated speed enforcement near parks and schools, red light cameras, and the fines and contracts behind them.

Results for Speed cameras: 1 key roll call, 5 more matching legislation, and 25 documents. Search again or refine, or ask a question about it on Research.

Roll calls

Legislation

• Amendment of Municipal Code Section 9-101-060 to require any appropriation of funds from violations of automated speed… (O2025-0021034, Ordinance): In Committee, introduced Nov 14, 2025, sponsor La Spata, Daniel
• Amendment of Municipal Code Section 9-100-045 increasing violation citation issuance date from 30 to 90 days after installation… (O2025-0016753, Ordinance): In Committee, introduced Apr 16, 2025, sponsor La Spata, Daniel
• Call for hearing(s) on installation of speed cameras at various locations in Chicago during 2025 (R2025-0016225, Resolution): In Committee, introduced Apr 16, 2025, sponsor Villegas, Gilbert
• Call for hearing(s) on the citywide installation of speed camera locations (R2025-0015951, Resolution): In Committee, introduced Mar 12, 2025, sponsor Villegas, Gilbert
• Amendment of Municipal Code Title 9 by modifying Chapters 9-100 and 9-101 eliminating fine for speed camera violations 6 to 10… (O2025-0016027, Ordinance): In Committee, introduced Mar 12, 2025, sponsor Mosley, Ronnie L.

Documents

Passages from ordinances, agreements, agendas, transcripts and campaign money briefs that best match "speed cameras automated speed enforcement red light cameras tickets", by meaning rather than exact words.

• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2026-10-09 (video transcript), Transcript, Oct 9, 2026: "And that's a lot of the work we've done together with finance and making sure the violations stand up. You know, we're not just enforcing, hey, somebody parked in the bus lane. How did they know? The violation package very clearly has to show, you know, oh, look, here's the markings. Here's the signage. people were giv…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2026-02-09 (video transcript), Transcript, Feb 9, 2026: "We're going to have to talk about video based enforcement, if we can do it with red light cameras. And now we can do it with speed cameras where you get a ticket for six miles over the limit by a park. We can certainly find a way for automated video based enforcement in commercial loading zones to discourage people, uh…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2025-09-22 (video transcript), Transcript, Sep 22, 2025: "crosswalk, two-lane street with a turning lane. We wanted to put this up here to show that infrastructure is inarguably necessary when it comes to actually reducing the number of tickets. We know the tickets decrease on their own over time at many locations, but that is not universally true. And this is to like, get th…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2026-10-09 (video transcript), Transcript, Oct 9, 2026: "then as we look at the total cost is 7.4 how much are we doing because we're done with warnings right there we go we're still gonna keep we're gonna warn them so we're still gonna do the we're not gonna do the installation warning we're gonna do the first offense warning as we expand we think that that would continue t…"
• Committee on Budget and Government Operations meeting, 2025-11-13 (video transcript), Transcript, Nov 13, 2025: "Yeah. I'm assuming that as we have more vehicles online, you're going to be seeing more of that. But just from an education perspective, you know, I'd like to be able to share with my constituents, you know, I've already told my children never park in a bike lane or bus lane at that point with these new cameras that ha…"
• Committee on Budget and Government Operations meeting, 2025-10-21 (video transcript), Transcript, Oct 21, 2025: "What is the budget on that? I mean, what was the projection on that again? For red light cameras? Yeah. For speed cameras as well. For speed cameras, 78 million. Red light cameras, 61. Okay. And that's – have you – it's projected to be increased for 2026, correct? These are the 2026 numbers. Because of the new speed ca…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2025-05-13 (video transcript), Transcript, May 13, 2025: "We know how much it is. I mean, 6-10 is the 35, and then over 10 miles or 11 and over is $100. $100. Okay. All right. Thank you for that. The 20% of all eligible safety zones says that it shall be equipped with automated speed cameras. You mentioned that there's 160 cameras right now. 50 would bring it to about 212. Is…"
• Call for establishment of interagency working group to assess and redesign speed limit enforcement structure and… (SR2024-0010992), Legislation, Jan 15, 2025: "S U B S T I T U T E R E S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, There are currently 162 speed cameras installed in the City of Chicago, located in about 68 of Chicago’s nearly 1,500 Safety Zones; and WHEREAS, The City has established six geographical regions wherein no fewer than 10% of all speed enforcement safety zones will be loca…" Document
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2026-09-15, Other, Sep 15, 2026: "026: 1 in 5 events are bike lanes 1 in 5 events are bus lanes 1 in 2 events are meters 40% collection rate YTD Draft Pre-Decisional * 30 Day Installation Warnings: 2024: 3,049 warnings noticed 2025: 1,548 warnings noticed # Technology ![A blue sign with white text AI-generated content may be incorrect.]() Draft Pre-Dec…" Document
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2025-05-13 (video transcript), Transcript, May 13, 2025: "162 cameras now. How long have we, roughly, how long have we been about that number? Approximately eight to 10 years. So the, the life of the, the, uh, program, um, safety zones. So one eighth of a mile of a Parker school is where the state allows us to put speed cameras, but did I read the slide right that we're only…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2025-05-13 (video transcript), Transcript, May 13, 2025: "tickets, they will stop passing the red light. The red light enforcement cameras will be paid off by the same people that are passing the red lights. When the people, you know, hopefully like that, the people will start abiding by the law. You know, accountability. The Chicago Ordinance 912-060 specifies that, this is…"
• City Council meeting, 2025-02-19 (video transcript), Transcript, Feb 19, 2025: "speed cameras in particular, we have people who routinely come to our offices, come to this body, who have made whole campaigns to stop the red light Camp to stop the cameras to say that they are unfairly and unequivocally and unequally distributed throughout the city of Chicago. And that is a 100% true. Because we kno…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2025-05-13 (video transcript), Transcript, May 13, 2025: "mentioned, they are really designed to change behavior in order to reduce crashes. And to put into context, the number of speed camera citations that are issued on an annual basis, in the year 2024, it was approximately 2.25 million citations across 162 locations citywide. To give 2.25 million citations some context, t…"
• Call for establishment of interagency working group to assess and redesign speed limit enforcement structure and… (SR2024-0010992), Legislation, Jan 15, 2025: "City Council Meeting July 17, 2024 Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety RESOLUTION WHEREAS, There are currently 162 speed cameras installed in the City of Chicago, located in about 68 of Chicago’s nearly 1,500 Safety Zones; and WHEREAS, The City has established six geographical regions wherein no fewer than 10% o…" Document
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2024-10-21 (video transcript), Transcript, Oct 21, 2024: "determinations whereby qualifying low income persons are able to apply for reduced fine amounts for tickets. Again, like no one's fines should be leading to financial hardship in bankruptcy in this city. And conduct a thorough overview of existing fines and adjust fine amounts for violations to be lower than the cost o…"
• Committee on Budget and Government Operations meeting, 2025-10-21 (video transcript), Transcript, Oct 21, 2025: "I have another question. CTA. Alderman, if you don't mind, I'd like to speak to that. So some of the application of the technology we have, it is picking up. more violations. So that's why you're seeing an increase. I would say this, that the safety issue is real. When red light and speed cameras have been put up and t…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2025-05-13 (video transcript), Transcript, May 13, 2025: "So you all have received an email of that, and each one of the members of the committee has received one of the speed cameras pre- and post-implementation in your wards. Following our analysis on the photo enforcement of speed cameras before and after implementation, evidence of the analysis suggests that the city shou…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2024-05-01 (video transcript), Transcript, May 1, 2024: "At 1 time I wasn't uh, uh fan at all of of red light cameras. but now I I um. I I was I was hoping that we could probably redraft uh ordinance to allow red light cameras. on in places where we have uh these accidents, uh, and and and and there's 2 basically locations, uh in my ward, uh where I'm having issues and they'…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2024-10-21 (video transcript), Transcript, Oct 21, 2024: "And so, um, I think that would behoove all of us as alders to really look into that and, and to be more proactive and collaborative with our constituents, um, in dealing with park and school speed. So I just wanted to make sure that I brought that up for this discussion. Really appreciate it. As, as, as the alderman is…"
• Committee on Budget and Government Operations meeting, 2025-10-21 (video transcript), Transcript, Oct 21, 2025: "Thank you. So we're in the process. We're fully staffed up. We're going to digitize the applications. So we're a little antiquated in that respect. We're going to digitize the applications. We're going to digitize the applications. We're going to digitize the applications. We're going to digitize the applications. Than…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2024-10-21 (video transcript), Transcript, Oct 21, 2024: "that we had heard from many in this room. It was the number one concern from the mayor. The, the notion is, and I'm grateful when he says publicly, that he fully supports lowering the speed limit. The question is, can we do this and we implement it in a way that is equitable? So that is the goal Here is the purpose of…"
• Committee on Budget and Government Operations meeting, 2024-11-06 (video transcript), Transcript, Nov 6, 2024: "based on the revenue we collected last year? So, so yeah. I can go over that real quick with you and then I'll get you a full breakdown sheet. Okay. So, um, in general, the parking violations, so that's subtract the speed and, and red light camera. Mm-Hmm. That gets us over a hundred million a year. Um, uh, that's abou…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2025-09-22 (video transcript), Transcript, Sep 22, 2025: "And then my follow-up, as you might imagine, what opportunity do we have to collect more of that that we're missing? Yes. I believe the overall rate we can get to you through the chair. Comptroller, do you want to speak a bit to the collection rate or like the collection processes? The collection processes of speed cam…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2024-01-10 (video transcript), Transcript, Jan 10, 2024: "give you like programs. Look at different user to lose. It funds for things like helmet share and other things that can make everyone safe for well while riding other questions that I would I'm going to note to the vice-chair but I don't think we'll go to Dave is I would love dadda or data portal on if we could see Div…"
• Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety meeting, 2025-09-22 (video transcript), Transcript, Sep 22, 2025: "The roughly just about 3,600 Chicagoans who have received 51 to 100. And that final category there, the fact that there are companies and fleets, sometimes individuals, but most likely companies and fleets, 25 of whom have received 500-plus speeding tickets in the last 10 years. This is concerning particularly because…"

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