Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Bike lock certainly cut and is missing

My children and I were at Douglas Park and we rode our bikes there. We just parked our bikes by the playground equipment and the kids were playing on the playground. Someone snuck up when I was not looking and took my bike.

I was coming back from a run and I saw a man riding on my bike just a block from my house. He was a black man wearing a black leather jacket, black skull cap.

It was stored in a locked back porch. The lock to the door seems to have been left open by another resident in the building.

Hey.. My brother just had his bike stolen today while he was in class at uic. He just bought it. Had a u-lock. It is a 2014 specialized allez. Black. Left pedal is slightly cracked and there's a couple scratches.

Bike was parked at the bottom of the loading dock in the shop where I working alone on a small project, I'd taken it out of the uhaul truck it had been tranported in to unload materials and leaned it against the dock wall. I then proceeded to work on my project, not perceiving the bike to be in any immediate danger since it was inside the shop. However I kept the garage door open because the day was nice, but because I was working on a personal I stayed a little later and did not think to close the door as it grew dark. The thief saw the unlocked bike at the bottom of the dock and seized his opportunity to take it. Probably while I was running a table saw. He also stole a set of husky string cage lights brand new in the box out of the truck, which he saw after getting to the bike at the end of the dock.

My bike was left in the alley briefly and was gone

There are several bikes left in the bike storage of our 8 unit building. The building requires a key to enter, or to be buzzed in through the intercom system. When I found my bike, there was a new bike that I had never seen stored in the storage area in the last 3 months. I wonder if a visitor rode this bike over and decided they liked mine better and left with mine. Or perhaps while the mail carrier had the door open, someone entered the building and took a bike, since the mail carrier won't know who lives here and who doesn't. I hadn't ridden in about a week since it's been colder outside, but because it was warm today, I wanted to go for a ride and noticed my bike missing. The police report number is through Evanston.

Criminal cut through Kryptonite U-Lock with a high powered electric hand held saw and rode off.

I believe that the theft happened between 4am - 6am as the free paper that is delivered on Tuesday mornings at approximately 4:45am was placed perfectly at the foot of my door (which does not happen as the paper is thrown from street level). It appears as if the lock was cut, as I found part of it down the block and around the corner from where I live.

Bike was locked to bike rack outside of TBH Residence hall at the corner of Halsted and Roosevelt Road on UIC campus. Bike was likely targeted as it has been there on multiple occasions. U - Lock that was around the rack, front wheel and frame was cut using some sort of bolt cutters. Multiple attempts were made to break the lock free suggesting it was a struggle at first. Lock was left at scene, Police report was filed at 9:30 am on October 23, 2014.

I think that someone used a grinder to cut my lock, there is evidence on the fence itself that supports this theory.

Locked to tree at 7pm. Found helmet, lock, and bike all missing at 11:15pm. Tree is large enough that bike couldn't be removed over the top. The lock was poor quality, and was likely defeated through force or decoding.

Locked bike to rack, returned 3 hours later it was gone.

The bike was locked through the front wheel and the frame ... per my son. Apparently it was locked only through the wheel because he found the wheel locked with rest of the bike gone. This was on Fullerton and Halsted and I am curious if there are any cctv or similar surveillance equipment installed in the area. I do not have a picture - only the wheel and paperwork somewhere - we just moved in last weekend.

I last saw my bike at Oct 23 at 7pm and discovered it missing at the date/time above. Earlier that day a stranger asked me while I was walking my bike how much it cost and where I got it and "if it went fast". It was a weird situation but I answered him figuring that he was innocently asking since, at the end of the day, knowing more about my bike doesn't make a U-lock easier to crack. This bike is generally on the low end in terms of new bikes - about $300 - so I didn't think it would be a hot target anyway. This incident with the guy obviously could be totally unrelated to it getting stolen.

My bike was inside my locked building- Right where I've been keeping it for a year-was there when I went to work that morning, I assume it's someone who had access to my building directly. A few new people have just moved in and I'll be doing neighbor rounds today.