Crime & Safety
Shootings Continue, Plans To Install Cameras Along Expressways Stall
For more than a year CBS 2 has told viewers about plans to install cameras along expressways to help catch gunmen.
CHICAGO (CBS) — In 2021 alone, there have already been 62 expressway shootings across Illinois. Now the state is dragging its feet when it comes to a possible solution. For more than a year CBS 2 has told viewers about plans to install cameras along expressways to help catch gunmen. With a law passed in 2019 it was expected that the cameras would be installed, but they have not.
There are 600 cameras along Illinois expressways, but none of them record video. The Tamara Clayton Expressway Camera Act is supposed to change that. It was signed into law in 2019. It was named for a postal worker killed during a random shooting on Interstate 57 while on her way to work.
