Live cameras in Libertyville, United States

Libertyville’s downtown is a run of brick storefronts along Milwaukee Avenue, rebuilt after a fire in 1895 destroyed the old wooden business district and the village required masonry from then on. The result earned recognition from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The town, home to about 20,600 people at the 2020 Census, lies about 40 miles north of the Loop and some five miles inland from Lake Michigan, with the Des Plaines River forming much of its eastern edge. Founded as Vardin’s Grove, it was briefly Independence Grove before taking the name Libertyville in 1837, and it even served as Lake County’s seat under the name Burlington for a short spell.

Its best-known former resident is Adlai E. Stevenson II, governor of Illinois and two-time presidential nominee, who bought land by the Des Plaines River in 1935 in what was then considered Libertyville. His home, now in neighboring Mettawa, is a National Historic Landmark run by the Lake County Forest Preserves.

Seventy cameras in the Libertyville listing come from Illinois DOT’s Gateway feed, which also supplies Getting Around Illinois and Travel Midwest. Look for views on Milwaukee Avenue (IL-21), the main street through town, and on the east–west routes IL-176 and IL-137 that link Libertyville to Mundelein and the Tollway. The images are periodic still captures, refreshed every few minutes, rather than streaming video.

The town is on Central Time. Summer evenings draw diners and strollers downtown, and weekday commuters fill IL-176 and IL-137 early and late. December snow on Milwaukee Avenue, patchy fog along the river valley and summer thunderstorms all show up well on traffic cameras. After clocks go back in early November, darkness arrives before most people finish work.

Metra’s Milwaukee District North Line has two Libertyville stations. Independence Grove Forest Preserve sits just north of town, and cameras in Mundelein and Vernon Hills appear within the same radius.

Sources: Libertyville, Illinois – Wikipedia · Adlai E. Stevenson II Farm – Wikipedia · Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home – Lake County Forest Preserves.