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July 10, 2008

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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%
	489744	289341	59%

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