Heavy traffic is seen on Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (Associated Press)
The devices will be used only for investigating shootings, not for traffic violations such as speeding, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in February.
Clayton was a U.S. Postal Service worker who was killed while traveling to work, the report said.
The Illinois Legislature passed the camera-funding bill in 2020 and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed it into law, the newspaper reported. No one should feel afraid for their life or safety on Illinois expressways, Pritzker said at the time, according to the Sun-Times.
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Last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Tamara Clayton Expressway Camera Act, which required the state to install new cameras on expressways. Current expressway cameras are low-definition and don’t record video. The act was named for a postal worker who was shot and killed on her way to work on Interstate 57 in 2019.
“No one should feel afraid for their life or safety on Illinois expressways,” Pritzker said in a statement. “Tamara Clayton’s tragic death must not be forgotten, and we must do everything we can to prevent more expressway shootings.”
A sponsor of the bill, state Rep. Thaddeus Jones, D-Calumet City, said the cameras will not necessarily stop the shootings on expressway but “will be used as a tool to catch those people who are using our expressways as their own personal shooting range.”