Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Bike discovered stolen at 8:20 p.m. on Thanksgiving day, November 26th, 2009.

Bike was stolen Saturday, November 21st from a locked storage/laundry room shared by tenants of an apartment building in Ravenswood/Uptown. The theft coincided with a tenant moving out.

Bike was stolen Saturday, November 21st between 1 and 7 pm from a locked storage/laundry laundry shared by apt. building tenants in Uptown/Ravenswood. The bike went missing around the time that a tenant was moving out. Could be a coincidence, but seems a little suspicious. (The picture shown is of the same make and model of as my bike, but not my actual bike.)

The bike was locked to a rack outside of my workplace just off of Halsted street on Van Buren. It was locked though the back wheel and frame using an On Guard U lock, as well as the front wheel using a cable.

I left the bike in the same place I have been for months. Noticed it was gone when I was out getting lunch. It had only been there for 3 hours or so. I locked the back wheel and frame to the pole and another lock through my front wheel and frame. The lock was sliced through, like using an angular grinder, not bolt cutters or a hacksaw. There is usually a lot of foot traffic there, so it happened quick. They were nice enough to leave the lock... The front lock was nowhere to be seen, so they probably didn't ride off with it.

Locked to a bike rack outside of a residential high rise at 6PM. One or 2 other bikes on rack. In morning at 8AM, bike was gone with no signs of any damage to the rack.

Bike has been in my detached garage. Garage was locked, but thieves broke into my garage and stole my bike.

i left it overnight like a dufus and it was stolen. no lock, no trace

Bike rack was loose so I think they just slipped the U-Lock loose.

Simply stashed my bike under the stairwell (unlocked) in our apartment complex side passageway late Friday afternoon thinking I'd be taking it out Friday evening. (The bike should have been invisible from the street as it was toward the back of the passageway.) I ended up not taking it out Friday evening and forgot about it. Went to retrieve it Saturday about noon and it was gone.

My bike was locked together with another bike and a fence with a U-lock and a cable lock. Unfortunately, my bike was not in the U-lock but only locked with the cable lock. The cable lock was cut and left at the scene with the other bike in the U-lock still secured to the fence.

Felt F75 Road bike stolen from Bucktown

Stolen from closed in yard with 6ft high vinyl opaque fence by teenager approx. 5'-10" - 180lbs, possibly hispanic

My bike, locked with helmet, was there in the morning and gone when I came out of the building. I have no idea how it was removed.

I thought it would be reasonable to lock my bike in Uptown for a half hour or so while I went in to Carol's for a beer and a hotdog with some friends. (Clark street and one block south of Lawrence). I used the second best Kryptonite lock and locked the frame to a bolted rack and felt pretty safe at 8 o'clock on a tuesday night. When I went to walk my friend out of the place and say goodbye the lock was snipped so cleanly and it lay there on the ground like a nightmare next to his POS bike. And i mean snipped clean... no sawing as there was no melting... one try with the cutters as there were no marks other than the clean break. Its right next to a bustop and a bar were regulars smoke 3 cigs an hour for goodness sakes. It seems like it was caught on security tape... Anyone know if that makes a difference? Its a black and yellow beauty.

Locked bike was stolen from back porch between noon, Sat Oct 10 and midnight, Mon Oct 12.

Condo garage was somehow compromised. Two bikes were in the garage, both hanging from the ceiling. One bike had a u-lock locking a wheel to the frame -- it was taken down from the ceiling, but not stolen. My bike was hanging unprotected and was taken. The bike was basically without a flaw. I am still unsure how the thief got in the garage -- no visible sign of forced entry, and the person would have had to maneuver the bike between two large cars to get it out -- a very tight situation.

Had bike locked to a tree in front of my building. It was in plain view of my apartment went, saw it though window at 12:45. When I looked out again at 1, it was gone. Right before it disappeared I did notice a black SUV or van idling nearby.

Bike was stolen out of a locked office. Reward for return.

Was my thief in a halloween costume? Or perhaps a Halloween ghost? I locked my bike in front of Chicago's second largest library figuring it would be safe with the constant car traffic and people that always sit in front of the library chilling out. Across the street in Welles Park is a group of older gentlemen who play bocce ball every weekend. When I left the library and saw my bike missing, the couple people sitting outside said they didn't steal it. Then I saw my lock sitting on the ground. Cut. Either with a bolt cutter or a hacksaw. Also, this happened on Halloween. In this neighborhood, all the kids do their trick or treating on Lincoln Avenue, so there were even more people walking around. How can someone steal a bicycle with all these witnesses? My only guess is some sort of Halloween ghost. All in all this is shaping up to be like a game of Clue. -- We know the location. The LIBRARY. -- We know the weapon. The BOLTCUTTERS (or hacksaw). -- We do not know the CRIMINAL. Who could have seen this? The pedestrians. The trick or treaters. The auto drivers. The library loungers. The bocce ball players. This is a Halloween mystery that will haunt me for ages.