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Chicago Traffic Cameras

1,083 live traffic cameras around Chicago, Illinois, straight from the state Department of Transportation. See what the roads look like right now before you leave.

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About the Chicago cameras

These are the official Illinois Department of Transportation cameras within about 45 km of downtown Chicago. They are the same feeds the state publishes, gathered here so you can check the whole metro area at once instead of one camera at a time.

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Driving in Chicago

Roadze tracks 1,083 traffic cameras in and around Chicago, Illinois. They belong to the Illinois Department of Transportation and are the same feeds their own traffic operators watch.

Most of them sit on US-41 (23), I-355 (16), I-88 (12), I-94 (12), US-45 (7) and I-294 (4). If you only check one before heading out, make it the road you actually take.

Winter is what closes roads here: snow, ice and blowing snow from November through March. Plow cameras and pass cameras are the ones worth checking before a trip.

Cameras are public and free to watch — no account, no app. Each one shows what the road looks like right now, which is more useful than a traffic map when you want to know whether it is raining, whether the plows have been through, or whether that backup is an accident or just volume.

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Every camera in Chicago was checked today. 1,083 are listed as working. Roadze re-checks every camera daily against its transportation department, so a camera that goes dark disappears from this page instead of sitting here as a broken thumbnail.