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City officials announced this week that they're ready to start catching parking violators by posting cameras on street sweepers. Earlier this year there was talk of busting speeders with cameras. All of it is inspired by the city's success with using technology to nab people running red lights--and to collect millions of dollars in fines from them.
The city now has red-light cameras mounted in at least 72 intersections, and officials are planning to install scores more over the next few years.
As it is, some intersections seem to inspire more red-light runners--and, presumably, produce more city revenues--than others. But thousands of people who've been caught don't bother paying the fines.
This chart shows how many alleged violators were caught by each camera between the beginning of 2007 and the end of April 2008, and how any of those have paid up. Of those who haven't, a select few contested the charges and either won or are still fighting; most of the others are still in the city's system. (The highlighted intersections had cameras installed after January 2007 and therefore haven't generated data for the full 16 months.)
| INTERSECTION | VIOLATIONS | PAID | PORTION PAID |
| 99th and Halsted | 30465 | 15869 | 52% |
| California and Diversey | 16931 | 12108 | 72% |
| Damen and Fullerton | 16658 | 12682 | 76% |
| Cicero and Fullerton | 14805 | 9273 | 63% |
| Hollywood and Sheridan | 14077 | 9280 | 66% |
| Kostner and North | 13491 | 7636 | 57% |
| State and Roosevelt | 12613 | 7558 | 60% |
| Western and 79th | 12359 | 5751 | 47% |
| Western and Foster | 12218 | 8374 | 69% |
| Pulaski and 63rd | 11330 | 7412 | 65% |
| Belmont and Kedzie | 11287 | 7515 | 67% |
| Pulaski and Belmont | 10317 | 6537 | 63% |
| Kingsbury and Ontario | 10083 | 6753 | 67% |
| Cortland and Ashland | 9952 | 7141 | 72% |
| Peterson and Western | 9950 | 7193 | 72% |
| Kedzie and Fullerton | 9639 | 5744 | 60% |
| 87th and Vincennes | 9174 | 4593 | 50% |
| 63rd and State | 8894 | 3714 | 42% |
| Archer/Narragansett and 55th | 8642 | 6110 | 71% |
| Ashland and 87th | 8403 | 3791 | 45% |
| Cottage Grove and 79th | 8363 | 3466 | 41% |
| Harlem and Northwest Hwy | 8083 | 6155 | 76% |
| Cicero and Belmont | 7924 | 5042 | 64% |
| Archer and Cicero | 7923 | 5048 | 64% |
| Pulaski and Fullerton | 7641 | 4449 | 58% |
| Austin and Belmont | 7449 | 5368 | 72% |
| Broadway/Sheridan and Devon | 7297 | 4071 | 56% |
| 79th and Kedzie | 7025 | 3767 | 54% |
| Vincennes and 111th | 7005 | 3072 | 44% |
| 119th and Halsted | 6987 | 2923 | 42% |
| Lawrence and Cicero | 6976 | 4830 | 69% |
| 111th and Halsted | 6903 | 3198 | 46% |
| Halsted and Division | 6733 | 4798 | 71% |
| Stony Island and 79th | 6298 | 2541 | 40% |
| Harlem and Belmont | 6070 | 4313 | 71% |
| Irving Park and Narragansett | 5900 | 4123 | 70% |
| 55th and Western | 5801 | 3208 | 55% |
| 4700 Western | 5721 | 3203 | 56% |
| Stony Island/Cornell and 67th | 5567 | 2483 | 45% |
| Pulaski and Foster | 5463 | 3863 | 71% |
| Roosevelt and Kostner | 5142 | 2485 | 48% |
| Madison and Western | 5092 | 2881 | 57% |
| Cicero and Chicago | 5046 | 1779 | 35% |
| 55th and Pulaski | 4966 | 3171 | 64% |
| Western and 51st | 4959 | 2668 | 54% |
| Ashland and Archer | 4883 | 2784 | 57% |
| Western and Irving Park | 4881 | 3130 | 64% |
| Foster and Nagle | 4483 | 3488 | 78% |
| Homan/Kimball and North | 4113 | 1953 | 47% |
| Western and North | 4108 | 2327 | 57% |
| Ashland and Division | 4095 | 2538 | 62% |
| Elston and Addison | 3868 | 2547 | 66% |
| Central and Fullerton | 3845 | 2147 | 56% |
| Jeffery and 95th | 3801 | 1637 | 43% |
| Cermak and Pulaski | 3695 | 1647 | 45% |
| Foster and Broadway | 3424 | 2217 | 65% |
| Ashland and Madison | 3322 | 2099 | 63% |
| 31st and California | 3291 | 2067 | 63% |
| Western and Chicago | 3189 | 763 | 24% |
| LaSalle and Kinzie | 2814 | 1993 | 71% |
| 35th and Western | 2349 | 1399 | 60% |
| Western and 63rd | 2265 | 916 | 40% |
| 71st and Ashland | 2218 | 850 | 38% |
| Ashland and 63rd | 2210 | 734 | 33% |
| Clark and Fullerton | 2181 | 1344 | 62% |
| Kedzie and 63rd | 2134 | 1026 | 48% |
| Roosevelt and Ashland | 2022 | 910 | 45% |
| Sheridan and Foster | 945 | 474 | 50% |
| 79th and Halsted | 872 | 301 | 35% |
| Kedzie and 47th | 552 | 48 | 9% |
| Cicero and 47th | 362 | 44 | 12% |
| Halsted and Belmont | 200 | 19 | 10% |
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| 489744 | 289341 | 59% |
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