Elgin, Illinois Speed Traps

There is a samll entranceway from Bluff City Blvd. onto Rt. 20 Eastbound.You can hardly see it. It is rarely used. But Elgins finest like to sit behind the bushes,trees planted there and wait until your on top of them doing 70 in a 55.

Officer likes to hides in Shocks Floral parking lot nabbing both North and Southbound traffic. speed limit is 35 but youll get tagged for going over or for being in a school zone.

Marked car sits behind shrubs at entrance to Elgin-O’Hare Corporate Center manufacturing plant on west side of 25. Speed limit drops from 45 to 35 with no advance warning.

Elgin police cars sit back on the private roads to the old Saftey Clean buildings back concealed by the wooded lots .Some just at the bottom before crossing the bridge heading towards I_90 direction catching speeders another at top by lights catching speeders and light runners. Also seen the red white green intrepides on Randall as well as the unmarked black cameros and mini vans.

The state police and cook county sheriff dept will sit on the entrance side of the expressway in both directions and have 1 squadtag you and call it to another squad thats sitting on the entrance ramp. They only go after speeders,but will nail you big time. They only seem to do this a couple times a month,so be on the lookout. Also,going westbound after medinah/meachem rd, they will sit behind partion and you wont see them untill you have blown past them.