Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Garage door was left open and the bike was taken.

bicycle was stolen from the back of a truck

Bike was locked in locked fence area behind US cellular. Garbage cans were stacked to allow thief to hop over fence and get bike back over it. U-lock was locked to frame and rear wheel.

Someone stole bike in the middle of the night with the lock.

the cable lock was around the big wooden post and attached with the ulock. the cable lock was flat-out cut with bolt cutters. it was inside a locked gate behind my apartment and no other bikes around were taken. it smacks of having been cased, but had only been out of storage for a few days. it is possible someone in my apartment did this - having seen it in the storage area and waited until i moved it outside for the season.

Bike was locked to wall (hanging) bike rack inside of the Skokie Swift Dempster terminal, 10 feet from the glass-walled attendant's booth. Attendant is on duty at all times, but roves about the termina.l I used a heavy combination Kryptonite cable lock, weaving it through both wheels, the frame, and the wall mount loop, as well as through my Bell helmet. As always, I carefully checked that the cable had indeed passed through correctly and that the combination was scrambled--I was in no sort of rush that day. This was at about 8:15am. When I returned at around 8:30pm, bike, lock, and helmet were gone. No debris was to be found below the rack. A search of nearby garbage bins turned up no traces of lock or helmet, or pieces thereof. I called Skokie PD immediately and officer Klamer (Star #247) took the report and issued me an incident referral card. Security attendant (not a CTA employee) claimed he had not seen or heard anything since he had begun his shift a few hours previously. The next day I quizzed the CTA afternoon attendant, who noted that, although she had had several distractions, including an elderly client falling down in a turnstile and requiring medical help and a fire in a planter pot outside, she had noticed no odd sounds or actions, and seen no suspicious activity around the bike racks. The following day I asked the morning attendant, who also claimed to have seen nothing. There are no video cameras in the Swift Dempster terminal--the only station in the CTA train system where that is true, I am told.

Shared Garage. The Door was left open.

I locked it to the no parking sign in front of my apartment at 11:00 PM. I got up for work at 5:00 AM and it was gone. Bike lock had to be cut because the sign is in tact and I locked the front wheel and frame to the sign.

Bike was in a busy area in the middle of the day.

I was working out at the fitness center. I arrived at around 2:45 and went back outside to get my bike around 5:30. The bike and lock were gone from the front of the building. I think someone cut the lock and put the bike and cut lock into their car and drove away.

The bike was stolen from the back deck of our condo while we were on vacation. It was locked to the deck with a U-lock. We live in a gated area which the perpetrators must have entered and then they dismantled part of our deck to free the bike. We do not know exactly what day this incident occurred.

I parked my bike on the bike rack between two buildings at Rush University Medical center between 10a and 2:10p. The bike rack was full and I only had room to lock the bike from the wheel and fork :( Someone must have noticed that I didn't lock my bike at the frame. My bike lock (A U-lock) was left but my bike was gone. It's a "rootbeer" Trek bike that has a lot of sentimental value. Please help.

i came home at midnight and both bikes were there in garage, the next morning when i came to the car garage both bikes were missing this was around 9am, both helmets gone and lock. there wasn't any signs of broken doors or open garages. i'm so sad so if you find a blue bike and pink helmet and a red bike with helmet please report back to me

The bike was locked to a city bike rack underneath the Metra over pass, right next to the Healy Metra Stop on Fullerton and Central Park. I locked it with a U-Lock, through the frame, the front wheel, and used a cable lock through the back wheel. The only fault was that I left the bike overnight there because I did not take the train home at night, and I forgot to get it. When I returned to the Metra station this morning, my bike was gone. There are usually about five other bikes parked there on a daily basis, and its a busy area, but at night it I can imagine someone having the time to saw through the lock, even though it is in a public area.

At 9:45 a.m. Saturday June 19, 2010, I went outside to unlock my bicycle to go for a ride and found it was missing. The cable and padlock were intact, but the bicycle was nowhere to be seen.

While at lunch someone cut the lock with bolt cutters, likely in front of other people as the area has decent foot traffic.

This is a picture from online of what my bike frame looks like, but the extras under the bike seat and on the handle bars are not on my bike. I haven't checked on my bike all winter (we keep it locked in our building's bike storage). I went down this spring to take it out for a ride and it was was gone along with the lock. This is an odd situation b/c I don't have any clue what day it might have been stolen, just sometime this winter. Only people in our building have a key to our building and to our bike storage. So, I'm assuming it was someone in our building, maybe a renter.

yeah, the lock was picked and the thief left behind a beater bike!! i have an image here somewhere, trying to find the file, hopefully i can come back and edit this... the bike is unmistakable, i was the only dude riding around the hood on a purple cannondale 2 sizes too small,

Mostly my fault... Left my bike locked to itself on the front porch when I got back from work, intending to take into the garage after dinner. Saw the bike on the porch later in the evening around 9:30pm when a friend came over. Next morning, it was gone.

I went into the Apple store after locking my bike thinking it was totally safe in such a high pedestrian traffic area, when I came out it was gone, all the other bikes appeared to still be there - many bikes!