Wheaton, Illinois Speed Traps

A Wheaton cop in a light green Ford Explorer will sit in between a mailbox and a telephone pole on Warrenville Ave. to catch speeders coming over the hill between Shaffner Road(South Entrance to Atten Park) and Center Street

Briarcliff Blvd. between Fawell Blvd. and Rt. 64. The Wheaton Police do traffic constantly here because of all the students from College of DuPage and tons of traffic that rips through the S. end of Briarcliff near the elementary school. The speed limit is 30 and stick to it! I have gotten two tickets here so watch out.

Enforcement is high any time of day, but especially at night. The police are constantly pulling cars over. Expect to get pulled over randomly at some point for some frivolous reason. (Odds are higher if you don’t drive a luxury car, although luxury cars get pulled over too.)

About twice a year, the police force will set up speed traps in this area during a.m. rush hour with officers sitting in lawn chairs with their laser devices – police cars are waiting up the road to pull offenders over. There have also been numerous "safety checks" at night where police detour all cars into the Target parking lot (at County Farm Rd.) to perform various checks on the drivers and cars.

An interesting addendum:
The local newspapers recently published an article stating that Wheaton is now prosecuting their own DUI cases in hopes to increase annual revenues by $400,000. Previously the State’s Attorney prosecuted all of Wheaton’s DUI cases.

Wheaton Police officers sit on the two cross streets south of Butterfield Rd, normally near the end of the month, to catch speeders on Orchard.

Atten Park is located on a curve in a slow residential area. The cops like to hang out in the parking lot in the afternoons and gun traffic heading north towards the high school. Usually an unmarked green SUV or car that blends in nicely with the cars in the lot.