Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

I left town on Fri night (Jan 30), came home on Sun night (Feb 1) to find that my bike was missing from the garage. It is possible that my landlord, who I share the garage with, left the door open and unattended for 5 min while unloading her vehicle. I saw a bike posted on Craigslist that matches my bike... hmm...

Stolen between Friday evening and Monday morning. I have a picture of the bike in the actual location it was stolen.

I live on a corner lot, so my side entrance garage is exposed to everybody when the overhead door is open. I assume somebody saw the bikes when I was getting the snowblower one day and decided to come back at a later time. I have no idea when it was stolen as the garage is only used for storage. I saw the bikes a few weeks ago when I was in the garage putting some Christmas decorations away. However, when I returned from a business trip, I saw my garage service (not overhead) door open. I actually didn't think twice as I thought I left it open. I live in a very safe neighborhood with no theft activity that I've ever heard of. The old timers still leave their front doors open! As I was in the garage today, it felt a little empty and I couldn't put my finger on it. I went back about ten minutes later and realized the bike was not there. It's strange because they didn't take the $700 snowblower or $400 lawnmower... just the bikes (my wife's Trek, as well).

Bike was locked between the end of the bike rack and a concrete support pillar for the building. smaller new york lock and keyway facing up and toward the concrete pillar limited access for forcing lock off.

I use this bike and trailer to haul my commercial packages to the post office and have been doing it for over two years. I have been bringing the bike into the main lobby and usually locking it to a railing under the escalator (with the permission of the janitor/custodian). That day, I didn't have the cable and lock with me and left it where I usually do, instead of trying to bring the bike and trailer to the second floor in the elevator (too small for bike and trailer). When I was finished with the postal clerks, I saw immediately that it was missing and went back to the clerks - just in case a security person moved the bike, then direct to USPS postal police and then filed a CPD report. The following morning, I did see the tire tracks of the bike and trailer - that someone had walked out of the building and bounced down the stairs - probably heading east on Harrison. THERE SHOULD BE A SURVEILANCE CAMERA/DOCUMENTATION of the theft.

Parked to City bike rack with other bikes at noon, gone when I returned at 6pm. Kryptonite cable lock with built in key lock, was mounted to the frame via connector, gone with bike.

Bike was left unlocked in the basement of 800 Sherman Ave, which is locked. Between September 1 and September 15 it disappeared.

This bike was recently donated to West Town Bikes from the UIC Police. My police friend who dropped it off told me he nabbed the guy who stole it shortly after the fact. The perpatraitor was found with several stolen wheels as well last September shortly after school had started. My officer friend said he would of like to have had it returned to the owner but there is no registration record of it. I told him I would post it around to see if anyone would claim it before WTB had it's way with it. Give me an accurate description of the seat under the bag and arrangements can be made to return it to you.

Garage broken into.

Someone broke into my house but only got as far as the downstairs door. They simply pushed in the front door, as the door jamb wasn't in the best shape. The bike was at the bottom of the stairs, just inside that door, at the foot of the stairs that lead up to my apartment door. It's a private entrance. It most likely someone on my street or even in my building who saw me leave for the holiday first thing Monday at like 5 am. It was the afternoon when my neighbor saw my door open.

Bike locked to bike rack on the side of the building in the loop.

The bicycle was lock thru each tire and frame on a metal bar type fence behind stairs in the gangway of the apartment building I live at. Someone had to have either knwn the bicycle was there, or really sought it out.

Our building was burglarized and 5 bikes were stolen from our basement storage units, where they were not locked, but had been there for weeks. Older bikes weren't taken , but newer ones were, along with tools.

I brought the bike into my backyard and left it there unlocked. A bunch of kids jumped fences that night and stole my bike easily. When i woke up it was gone. I know this is late notice and not well filled out but I just found this. I'll try to find some pictures of it

My bike was locked up Friday evening when I came home about midnight but Saturday morning it was gone. I suspect someone slipped inside the buildling somehow without a key and cut the cable lock and walked off with it. There is no trace of it, and the place where the bike had been stored is completely empty.

Someone unbolted the scaffolding i was tied to.

I locked up my bike in the morning in front of work, with only a cable lock because my U-lock broke (silly me for not immediately buying another U-Lock). When I left the building around 4:15, the bike was gone. It was very odd to look at the rack where it was locked up (next to Fannie May candies) and not see it any more. It was a large Trek 820 mountain bike, dark blue, with a silver bike rack on the back, a 'tandem' coupling on the back of the seat stem, and several white and red "Wahoo's Fish Tacos" stickers on the frame. It also had a "Village Cycle" sticker near the bottom of the frame. The bike was worth less than $300, but it was only 2 years old, and I certainly wasn't planning to get rid of it.

I went to class in UIC's Art and Architecture building off of Harrison Street. I arrived there at 1pm and didn't leave the building till 6:40pm. I locked my bike up to a metal railing right outside the main entrance and locked the two wheels, chain, frame and seat with Masterlock's Python lock. The lock was cut and left about 5 feet away near the handicap ramp. I had last seen my bike when I finished locking it up around 1:05pm that day so anytime between then and 6:40pm is when it could of been stolen.

I left it for a day outside one of the enteerances to the Logan Square Bus stop

Stolen from the pedestrian mall behind OPRFHS on election night while my son was at choir practice. REWARD will be paid for return.