Illinois
Revenue from Chicago speed cameras more than doubles after 6-10 mph change: data
CHICAGO (WLS) — It’s been more than two years since city of Chicago speed cameras started issuing tickets for people going 6 to 10 miles over the limit.
The ABC7 Chicago I-Team is comparing crash data, before and after the change.
The city of Chicago used to issue speed camera tickets for going 10 miles per hour or more, over the limit — $35 for 10 miles over and $100 for 11 mph or more. Now, motorists can get a $35 ticket going 6-10 over.
The city of Chicago’s Department of Transportation said there has been a 15% reduction in the speeding tickets issued to drivers going over 11 miles per hour, since the new rule went into effect, and that drivers overall are slowing down.
The ABC7 Chicago Data Team researched the crash numbers on the city’s data portal and found from March 2019 to Feb. 28, 2021, two years before the 6-10 mph ticketing, there were nearly 1,800 incapacitating injury or fatal crashes within 250 meters of a speed camera.
From March 2021 to Feb. 28, 2023, the two years after the 6-10 mph rule went into effect, there were about 1,900 incapacitating injury or fatal crashes within 250 meters of a camera.
“You know, I know that they’re trying keep everything safe, but I just think it’s about money,” said Marvin Gary, who has received numerous tickets for going 6-10 mph over the limit.
Through information obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request, the I-Team found there has been a drastic increase in revenue.
In the two-year period before the 6-10 mph rule went into effect, the city made about $77 million.
For two years after the new rule started, the city made more than twice as much money, about $185,200,000 in tickets.
Sixty percent of those tickets were from people going 6-10 mph over the limit. Eleven percent were from drivers going 11 mph, or more, over the speed limit. The remaining 29% of tickets are warnings with no cost to drivers.
The remaining 40% of those tickets in the last two years were warnings, or they were given to drivers going 11 miles per hour or more over the limit.
CDOT declined to comment for this story.
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Illinois State Police said a Plainfield crash on I-55 caused lane closures near Renwick Road on Tuesday afternoon.
PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) — A semi crash caused a traffic backup in the southwest suburbs on Tuesday afternoon.
Illinois State Police said the semi crashed on Interstate 55 near Renwick Road in Plainfield around 4:30 p.m.
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The truck, which hit a concrete median, was leaking fuel and blocked all three southbound lanes.
ISP said no injuries have been reported.
What caused the crash was not immediately clear.
Traffic was getting by on the left shoulder before all lanes reopened.
Further information was not immediately available.
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Illinois
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan files motion for release during appeals process
CHICAGO (WLS) — Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is trying to stay out of prison.
On Monday, he filed a motion for release, pending appeal of his conviction.
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Madigan was ordered to report to prison this October to begin serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for corruption.
His lawyers argue he should remain free because his appeal could reverse his conviction.
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Illinois
3 juveniles charged in armed robbery at Cicero, Illinois gas station, subsequent police chase
Three juveniles were facing charges Sunday night in an armed robbery that led to a wild chase from the west Chicago suburb of Cicero to Chicago’s West Side.
Cicero police said the suspects were part of a crew that targeted couriers removing cash from gaming machines at the Mobil gas station at 5147 W. Roosevelt Rd. at Laramie Avenue around 3 p.m. Friday.
Police said the robbers forced the couriers to the ground at gunpoint, ransacked their vehicle, and stole about $70,000.
The robbers sped off in a white sedan accompanied by two “trail vehicles,” Cicero police said.
A townwide camera system, which uses license plate readers, helped police identify the cars involved, as a chase took over Chicago streets and expressways. CBS Skywatch caught it all from the air and captured the cars traveling along the Eisenhower Expressway, around the Windy City Smokeout outside the United Center, and under the Chicago Transit Authority’s elevated Green Line tracks on the West Side.
The pursuit finally ended near West End and Kostner avenues in West Garfield Park, where two people were arrested. Another two people in a white Honda sedan ditched their car in an alley of a nearby apartment building. The three juveniles arrested had some of the stolen cash with them, police said.
Meantime, a black Chrysler that also fled the scene of the robbery was chased along the Eisenhower Expressway, Tri-State Tollway, Bishop Ford Freeway, and Borman Expressway into northwest Indiana, where two suspects were arrested after ditching the car in Hammond and running into the Little Calumet River, police said.
A Cicero police investigation resulted in cash, drugs, and guns being recovered from multiple vehicles and the West Side apartment, police said.
Each juvenile has been charged with two counts of armed robbery and one count of unlawful possession of a weapon. They have been transferred to the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, police said.
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