Arlington Heights Mayor Arlene Mulder paused for a long moment before finishing her suggestion about what Cook County can do with its recently announced plan to use red-light cameras to ticket suburban drivers.
“Cook County can just take their cameras,” Mulder said, “and put them anywhere they want, but not in my town.”
Several communities have launched efforts to try to keep the cameras out after county commissioners last week voted to install them, releasing a list of 30 “top candidate intersections” — crossings with at least one county-maintained road in towns from Tinley Park to Schaumburg to Wilmette.