So Who's Getting it Worse?

These are red light camera tickets:

• Red-light cameras on Chicago’s South Side issued more than triple the number of tickets per intersection as on the North Side between June 2024 and May 2025. Fines citywide dropped over $12 million from the previous 12 months.

  Red-light cameras on Chicago’s South Side issued the most tickets per intersection during the 12 months through May, ticketing 2.6 times more drivers than the citywide average and over triple the number as monitored intersections on the North Side.

  Drivers citywide were fined nearly $56.5 million, without accounting for late fees, through 564,708 tickets from June last year through May. That’s 120,709 fewer tickets than during the previous 12 months and a more than $12 million drop in revenue. The drop was $15.4 million from the peak 12 months before that.

So fines are down tens of millions - money you know that Conehead has already spent in his "budget."

But although the rate of ticketing is higher on the south side, total fines are higher north:

• Red-light cameras on the South Side issued an average of 9,692 tickets, or about 6,623 more tickets than each camera intersection on the North Side.

  Despite the high volume of tickets per intersection on the South Side, drivers on the North Side received 73,309 more tickets, costing North Side drivers $7.3 million more in total than those on the South Side.

Of course, none of this means a damn thing unless the fines are paid promptly on time. The money is spent as if it was there, but it never is and the so-called media watchdogs never seem to ask that question.