Jean-Baptise Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive and expressways in Cook County are getting additional cameras installed to assist law enforcement in investigating carjackings, shootings and other crimes.
Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive and expressways in Cook County and around the state will see additional cameras to assist law enforcement in investigating carjackings, shootings and other crimes.Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed into law two bills that will expand the use of expressway cameras in nearly two dozen counties across Illinois and allow for the use of those cameras along Chicago’s most famous thoroughfare.
The state budget for the upcoming fiscal year included $20 million to expand the technology, Pritzker’s office said., allows for the use of expressway cameras along DuSable Lake Shore Drive. Both bills are effective immediately. There were 264 reported expressway shootings in Illinois last year, the governor’s office said. Of those, 114 involved injuries and 22 resulted in deaths. In 2020, 72 people were shot and seven killed in similar shootings.
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