Arlington Heights, Illinois Speed Traps

There is a small electrical building on your left as you drive north on Arlington Heights Road just between a High School and Elementary School. The posted Speed Limit is 25mph on school days when children are present (whatever that means) and 35mph otherwise. The cop will sit in this little one car parking lot for this electrical building and catch people speeding. Also on this same stretch of road I have seen numerous police cars driving on it and suddenly stopping and doing u-turns to chase people over the speed limit. There have been many times where a group of cars has been forced to follow a police car going the same direction as them and the cops do not follow the 25mph speed limit, so how can they enforce it? Just be careful here…

Going down white oak street( its between wilke and arlington heights road) the speed limit is set unrealisticly slow, 25 MPH, when it is wide open and fairly busy. Cops will always sit on side streets off of it, on the whole street too not only in the beginning and end. i know countless people who have gotten a ticket on it.

This trap mostly affects those cars coming east from Arlington Park. Euclid is a four lane road, and it goes from 40 mph down to 30 mph east of Wilke Road. You will often find an Arlington Heights cop car sitting just off Euclid on Yale, Harvard, or Dwyer Streets; you will not be able to see them until it’s too late. The prevailing speed in this section of roadway tends to be 40-50 mph; driver beware.

This speed trap runs on Hintz Rd. from the intersection of Rand Rd. (Rt 12) to Arlington Heights Rd. then continuing on up to Schoenbeck Rd. The first portion of this trap between Rand Rd. and Arlington Heights Rd. is a residential neighborhood with a posted limit of 25 mph. I will frequently see the cops (normal marked car or motorcyle) hiding on the side streets off of Hintz about 15-20 yards back, in particular at the streets with stop signs. They’re primarily looking for vehicles that are either speeding or don’t come to a complete stop at the stop sign.

The second portion of this trap is between Arlington Heights Rd. and Schoenbeck Rd. The posted limit either increases from 25 to 35 mph if you’re going east or decreases from 40 to 35 mph if you’re going west. I’ve observed both normal marked cars and motorcyles in this portion as well. In particular, on the north side of Hintz, well hidden, towards the back of a church parking lot. Also, when the motorcycle cop is hiding on the side streets on the south side of Hintz, he tends to pick and choose which vehicles he wants to monitor with his radar.

Arlington Heights PD sometimes has a cruiser clocking people off on one of the side streets here. They are well hidden from side view by the wealth of residences on this street. This is also a straight stretch of four lane road which really snags eastbound travelers, who have to slow from 40 to 30 at the Wilke Road intersection. Of course, nobody goes 30 in either direction; the traffic flow tends to push 45.