![]() ![]() The City's department of finance collects money from tickets and the Chicago Department of Transportation runs the speed camera program. I am very glad for those being very safe streets, for me and my 8-month-old," he said. "As a parent right now I walk my daughter in her stroller down Fullerton and Milwaukee to get to daycare in the morning. Wallace hopes Mayor Brandon Johnson will reverse it, but 1st Ward Alderperson Daniel La Spata wants to keep the lower limit. The city council had a chance to reverse Lightfoot's rule in July 2022, but the measure failed by a vote of 26 to 18. "The fines double when they can't pay the $35." "This is a revenue generating system," said Mark Wallace of Citizens to Abolish Red Light Cameras, which advocates for the city to get rid of speed cameras. ![]() The remaining 29% of tickets are warnings with no cost to drivers. Compare that to about $63,500,000 made from only 11% of speed camera tickets that come from drivers going 11 miles per hour, or more, over the speed limit. They found that 60% of tickets come from those driving 6-10 miles per hour over the limit, generating almost $121,700,000 for the city. The I-Team looked into how much money the city has made from those $35 tickets since the new law went into effect. We got cameras everywhere," said Diara Brooks who owns Scoop's Hair Mechanics, a barber shop and mechanic shop in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.īrooks has received several speed camera tickets for going 6-10 miles per hour over the speed limit. The city's 162 speed cameras are placed near parks and schools and they're making millions on drivers going 6-10 miles per hour over the limit. While some say streets are now safer, the I-Team has learned the overwhelming majority of revenue is coming from people breaking that controversial 6-10 miles per hour over the limit rule. More than two years ago, Chicago started citing drivers going only 6-10 miles per hour over the limit. Chicago speed camera tickets for drivers going 6-10 miles per hour over the speed limit have raked in millions of dollars for the city.ĬHICAGO (WLS) - The City of Chicago is making millions of dollars on drivers going just slightly above the speed limit.
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