Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Bike was stolen was from enclosed garage area in multi-tenant condo building likely because another tenant accidentally left the garage door(s) open.

Bike was stolen from enclosed garage in multi-tenant condo building likely because another tenant accidentally left the garage door(s) open.

I left my bike locked outside the Tech building at Northwestern University at 6:30pm. The frame and front wheel were locked by cable lock to a bike rack. When I left the building around 8pm, the bike and lock were gone.

The picture above is not the exact bike but other than the disc brakes and suspension fork, mine looks just like this. I rode the bike to the train for work and locked it up on the bike rack. Lock was through both tires and frame, locked to the bike rack. When I arrive back at the train station at 5pm, my bike was gone. I always made a point not to park my bike in the same spot, no did I ride it every day.

It was stolen in broad daylight near a very busy location, Halsted and Belmont in the middle of the day.

not pictured: leather-wrapped nitto drops and brown leather Brooks saddle

Locked up my bike before work right in front of the hospital and when I came out it was gone. Guessing the lock was cut and bike was stolen in a busy area during the day.

I had my bike on my back deck and forgot to put it in storage before leaving for work this morning. I came home and it was gone. It was last seen at 8am and was gone by 430 pm. Somebody had to walk onto the property, up onto my deck and either walked it out the front gate or out the back gate of the property. The image is an older one of my bike. It had white velocity deep Vs laved to black Milwaukee Bicycle Company hubs now.

My bike was locked in the backyard shed for the winter. When I went to get it out for the summer a week ago I found that the hardware was ripped out of the door and my bike was missing from inside. Nothing else was stolen, even though there were lawn tools and other (much older) bikes inside as well. A neighbor apparently noticed the shed door swinging open sometime in the middle of winter, but it must have blown shut again before I noticed. The date posted in this report is the day I found that my bike was gone.

I rode my bike to see a 1040am movie on 6/4 at the AMC river east 21 theater. The bike racks by the front door of the theater were full (just a few steps to the right of the front door), so I locked my bike to the fence of the flower bed right next to the bike rack. Upon returning to the location after the movie, my bike was gone..the cut krytonite u lock was left behind.

I think they some how unlocked my bike or cut the u lock and then took it and disposed of it.

The cast iron fence was sawed and bent. Clearly the perp could not compromise the newer u-lock with a flat key. Due to the strength of the fence, I would estimate this process probably took around an hour and that they had scouted out the bike previously to bring necessary tools.

The garage in my building is a "secured" location, but it is my suspicion that the thief walked in behind a car leaving the shared garage. It was there at 11:30am when I left to fill the tires in my wife's bike. When she returned from her journey at around 1:30, mine was gone. I'm so dumb for not locking it. That mistake will never be made by me again.

Bike stolen from garage with my other bike, a Green Schwinn Varsity (also posted on this page.) Bike looks similar to the picture except no light or reflectors. Is blue, not the color of the photo. Bike also has blue handles.

Garage was left open due to garage door malfunction. Bike stolen out of it.

The bike was stolen from my locked garage between 5:30-6:45pm. I think they were in the process of stealing my brother's bike from the same garage and someone startled them.

I biked home in the rain on Sunday afternoon, May 29, and at 2:30pm locked the bike to itself within vestibule of my apartment building. The bike was taken, without forced entry into the locked front door, at some point before 11pm that night.

The bike was locked to another bike and to a bike rack with 2 locks. I saw that bike at 11am and the next time I looked was about 1:30pm and both bike locks had been cut and the bike in question was gone.

The bike was not locked but stored in a secure (I thought) location in a storage room in a basement of my workplace. Few people have access to the space- employees, repairpersons, etc. I know now I was too trusting, but I believed fellow staff knew the bicycle was mine and if anyone saw someone walking out with it (which would be EXTREMELY hard to do without someone seeing) they would intervene. I went down to get it to ride it home on Wed 1 June and found it was missing. A co-worker said he definitely saw it exactly one week ago, so the incident happened sometime between 25 May and 1 June. It's my fault, I know, but I really want my bike back!

Stolen bike was chained to a two bike stand, along with my wife's 'shopping bike' - an almost new beach cruiser type three speed machine. The two were almost hidden at the rear of our car park space by our car, and an unlocked shopping type bike leant against the same wall a few feet away. Garage is supposedly 'secure' but we suspect tradesmen have more access to keys than they should have. We drove into our parking space at 3PM on the afternoon of the 28th. Our condo building is still under heavy unit construction, so were not surprised to see two tradesmen in the further part of the garage, near a typical white panel van. At 11PM, we had to leave our building, by car. We got in the car, my wife spotted that my bike was missing. The fairly hefty cable lock had been cut through by a bolt or cable cutter - the sort of tool those workers would likely have had in their van. They were outside contractors for the building company who is finishing off units in our building. The rep for that company stated that all workers they hire are well known to them and cannot see them stealing a bike so blatantly. Sure... A police report was filed, awaiting the paper copy being mailed to me as this was entered. The bike had rear panniers on a Performance Bicycle rack, with a U lock in one pannier - no key - and a crash helmet slung over the ends of the bars. It was fitted with white plastic fenders. The handlebars are FSA 'Wing Pro' low drop compact bars, that I had handy and fitted myself - these alone make the bike stand out. My wife's bike and another unlocked bike some few feet away were left untouched, which suggests this street trash is a cyclist, or knows something about bikes.