Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

my bike was stolen from an enclosed back yard of a residence. the thief left their crappy bike in its place, propped open the back gate, and road away with my bike. (i hope it was at least difficult for them to ride a fixie).

Someone has had it in for my bike! Twice in two weeks, someone mangled my cable lock, as if they tried to break it from either end. I bought a thicker cable lock, and hadn't had any incidents in over a week (in retrospect, I clearly should have upgraded to a U-lock). Yesterday I rode it, and locked it as usual (through the wheel and the frame) to my building's metal fence. This morning, I went outside to find my bike and the lock gone.

Bad luck. I biked to Lolla, had my backpack stolen. Then had to leave my bike to go home and get bike lock key. SO I saw my bike on Sunday night at 11pm. Arrived this morning at 7:30am it was gone. I had a uLock through the front tire to the bike rack (I thought it was through the frame, but it must not have been) and another chain lock through the back tire attached to the ulock. The chain lock was cut and the front tire was all that was left.

My Schwinn Men's 700C Tourist 28" Road Bike was stolen from my backyard at 3400 S Aberdeen between the hours of 6pm and 8pm on August 5th, 2012. The perpetrator(s) knocked over the pole it was attached to, removed the top bar of the pole, and proceed to slide my locked bike, as well as another tenant's bike, over the pole. It had a Bell Gel Seat Cover (http://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/13833131?wid=300&hei=300), though that may have been removed. Any information is appreciated.

My bike was in my garage. Both entrances to the garage are locked. When I returned to my garage the bike was gone.

Two bikes stolen together from Navy Pier across from the main entrance. Security allowed me to view the security tapes along with CPD. In plain site, white male sitting in the grass watched me lock the bikes up and a while female walked up cut the lock and walked around for about 10 minutes. The white male stood up and walked off with one bike, while the white female immediately followed. All caught on tape. Looks to be a regular operation. I will be returning to the area on and off over the next few weeks and watch to see if this happens again. I just bought the two bikes 2 weeks ago.

Bike was locked securely (new U-Lock) to a bike rack under the Metra tracks at the 59th street station on Friday 8/3/12, around 7:30pm. Two days later, on Sunday 8/5/12 at 6:30pm, the bike, along with the U-Lock, is gone. There are a few scratches on the bike rack, but I'm not sure if that's relevant.

I locked my bike to a parking sign post, and only discovered when I came back that the sign was only stuck in a hole in the ground, no cement or other mounting. I assume the pole was slipped though the lock and then put back where it was. In short, I got duped.

Bike was stolen from locked garage where it was hanging on wall. Although it was locked, it was a flimsy lock and only locked to itself.

Someone walked up into our back porch which is not visible from the alleyway and stole the bike. There was another bike there which was not taken.

First time riding bikes in the city, told my girlfriend on the ride I need to go buy U locks later in the afternoon. We rode to North Ave Beach and tied bikes up at a heavily used bike rack and highly populated area. We both had a cable lock so I put one through our front tires and around the rack and the other through the frames and the rack. We walked 50 yards away and laid on the beach for an hour and a half. Came back and the remains of one of the bike locks was there. Pissed...

My bike was parked at the Brain research entrance of the University of Chicago Medical Center, with a master lock chain lock going through the front tire and connected to the seat. The lock must have been cut, and the bike was stolen from that location between when I parked it there at 0700 and when I came out to go home at around 8pm. It basically was a stock bike... no other upgrades or distinguishing features. Can't find where I wrote down the serial number. There aren't many bikes like this one...

A girl supposedly named "WHitney" came to look at the bike. Then she just hopped on it and yelled that it was her bike and took off. If you ever get an e-mail from [email protected] know she's a bike thief!!!!!!!!!!!

Bike was locked to a pole outside our apartment, we lock it up regularly outside. We just came upstairs one day for a few hours and came down and the bike was missing. I really hate thieves, but i guess I learned to never lock it up outside again.

The bike was locked up when I was at work, after work I went outside and found the lock cut, the bike gone. If you have any information, please let me know and thanks in advance.

I accidentally left my garage door open for about an hour and a half. Either someone has been watching and knows where I keep my bike or just happened upon it and snatched it from the garage and took off quickly.

Went to retrieve bike from bike storage room in apartment building I live in and it was gone.

Some dedicated ass clown took apart the chain link fence where my bike was locked outside my door (newer u-lock w/flat key). It's a large silver Jamis Citizen with disk brakes.

left my bike on my 2nd story porch in a somewhat hidden from plain view area, blocked in by my roommate's locked bike. i checked on it a couple of times throughout the day. at about 430-5pm my neighbor said she saw a female 20 something year old, curly dark hair, and darker complexion with the bike outside her house, downstairs. at 9pm i was leaving my house and my bike was gone. my roommate's bike was still locked in one place. filed a police report. the bike has a heavy duty chain lock wrapped around the base of the seat. i'm the only one who has the keys.

Bike was stolen from a locked, intrusion protected fence, with nothing to lock my bike to inside the gate, strong possibility gate was left open but nobody's speaking up. Happened on Damen and Potomac, pretty close to Wicker Park, Ukrainian Village. Somewhere between 1:00 PM and 3:30 PM. Real shame.