Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Incident occurred after "Tour de Fat" bike and music festival sponsored by Fat Tire Brewing at Palmer Square Park in Logan Square. At the rear of the event, completely within the square, near Albany Avenue, there were fence-like barricades approximately 4' tall and 12' wide to which bikes were locked. I locked my bike to one of these barricades. I left my bike there at approximately 5pm to visit friends in the area. I returned to the park at around midnight and the barricades were gone, as well as my bike. Since it had been dark when I returned to get my bike that night, I returned to the park again the next day to confirm that the bike and barricades were indeed removed. It is possible that, at some point while I was away, my bike may have been impounded or stored at another location by the authorities while the barricade to which it had been locked was removed from the site. Since the U-lock is also missing, I do not know for sure whether or not the U-lock was cut to separate the bike from the barricade, although I suspect the lock probably was cut.

Somebody cut the lock and took it between 5:00 pm and 6:45 pm while I was in the Davis Theater.

I locked my bike up to one of the thick bars of a sidewalk trashcan outside of west fest yesterday at about 4 pm. It was on the west side of damen just north of the bust stop for Chicago ave (to catch the bus heading south). The store seemingly has a camera pointing in this general direction. I don't know if it would be of any use. Any advice? I had a kryptonite fuhgedaboutit (or however it is spelled) super thick lock. The area was extremely busy so it boggles my mind how it could have been stolen, unless I somehow did not lock it securely. Which would be surprising. I do remember jiggling the whole to bike to make sure it was secure. There were no loose pieces on the trash can. No evidence of anything having been cut or tampered with.

Attended the Chinatown 5k event. Arrived at Chinatown Plaza at 7:30am and locked bike to fiance's bike. Fiance's bike was locked to the bike rack on the edge of the plaza outside tent perimeter. 8:00am the 5k race started. 8:45am checked on both bikes and they were still there after the race. Attended post-race event at the tents. Roughly around 9:30am the Awards announcement began on stage. 9:40am walked to bike rack and one bike was missing and the lock was on the ground

Locked in front of business, went into yoga studio, came back an hour, and it was gone.

Bike was locked to a industrial metal fence by Michigan Ave and Pearson. I locked it along with 3 other bikes; 2 which were stolen. There were security cameras and security offices not to far.

My bike was kept in my garage...a roommate left the garage door open and bike was taken from inside

I locked my bike on Columbus Ave. and went to the Taste of Chicago. There was a police presence on the street.

I had locked my bike up at around 4:00 in the morning to a bike rack outside of California and Division in front of several closed businesses. I walked out at 5:45 to ride my bike to work to find it missing. I did not go outside to check it between 4am to 5am. I am assuming it was earlier in the morning due to the traffic that usually happens around the later evening. The bike lock is also gone.

Locked bike to street post with a U-lock, both through frame and front tire, outside of the Whirlaway Lounge (3224 W. Fullerton) around 11:45 PM. I'm typically wary about locking to a pole, but there was a door man for the establishment hanging outside. When I exited it was apparent the pole had been unscrewed and lifted so that the bike and lock were able to slide right off and be take. Pole was replaced to previous position, only with the screw missing.

My bike was last seen in our storage area of our building on June 28th. We left for a vacation and the bike was still here when we left. The bike wasn't locked to anything, but it does have wheel locks and I still have the key to these locks. The bike wasn't locked because this storage area is only used by my unit. The people who live on the 1st floor the building do have access to this area, but don't use it because there is no storage for them. The lock to the door to this area doesn't appear to be tampered with so it is thought that someone who does have access to this door exited the building this way and didn't fully close the door (it automatically locks, but must be closed all the way). There was a brown Whole Foods grocery bag left where the bike was. This bag contained used children's books (Dora the Explorer) and about 5 Pornographic DVDs as well as a Red Eye dated July 3rd. I just noticed the bike was missing today as I was going to take it out for a ride. I figured it was stolen on July 3rd (based off the red eye newspaper I found in the bag) while we were out of town. I have reported it stolen to the police and have called the play it again sports store near me, but so far nothing has come up.

Bike was parked right outside damen brown line entrance (gas station side). Was locked by u lock on bike racks right outside station exit. Left overnight. Thief most likely took back wheel off in order to steal bike. U lock went with it. Stolen in Ravenswood area.

I last rode my bike a couple weeks ago and have been keeping it on my fully enclosed wood fenced in patio in lincoln park. The patio is not visible from the street and you cannot see onto the patio. This means someone opened the gate, came onto the patio, and removed the bike. It was not locked as I did not believe someone would come onto my personal property or even know my bike was there. When it was stole the black u-lock was still attached to the bike.

Left a friend's apartment to discover my bike had been stolen.

Someone cut the cable and stole my bike. Probably early in the morning when there isn't alot of people around. Parked in front of Ogilvie Transportation Center. Picture is very similar to my bike stolen. It's from a Craigslist ad. ************************ On July 12, 2013, the victim writes that he found his bike but was unable to recover it: "I posted about my stolen Schwinn Le Tour that occurred yesterday at Ogilvie Transit Center at 500 W. Madison. The picture I posted was from a craigslist ad that was posted a few hours after I had parked my bike and last seen it around 5:30am. I contacted the seller, went out to meet him in Skokie and took police to accompany me in case it was my bike. This guy had about 30 bikes in his garage. The bike he was selling was my bike but unfortunately I never wrote the registration number down since I just got the bike a couple weeks ago and it was my first bike ever. The one distinguishing feature I could recall was the chain guard was bent. Curiously, my bike was the only in his garage that had the chain guard removed. I had filed a police report yesterday but since it wasn't as detailed as it needed to be they couldn't take the bike from him since I couldn't prove it was mine. I'd urge you to add a note to your website to make sure you document any little thing you can remember from your stolen bike that can identify it. Scratches on the paint, tear in the seat, markings and stickers, etc. And beware of a guy in Skokie selling all types of bikes on Craigslist. He got very angry and defensive and couldn't prove he bought any of the bikes he has. But if someone has the fully descriptive police report and scans Craigslist to see their bike posted, they may be able to call Skokie police to assist them in getting their bikes from this guys garage. Hopefully this helps someone else, so pissed still but thanks for your great service."

I work at Ready Coffee (right next to Myopic Books) in Wicker Park. Bike was parked right in front of storefront, locked to a bike rack. It was there when I walked down the street, and when I walked back it was gone. The front tire is still there, locked to the bike rack with the u-lock. This had to happen between 2:30 and 3:00pm. Right pedal was missing and right brake did not work. A lot of the lettering is scratched off.

Garage Door was opened or left open and the bikes were taken together.

Neighbor came home to find the garage door open. I went to retrieve the bikes but they were gone. I imagine someone has some sort of garage door opener that they programmed to get the door open. The gate and garage door were both locked.

The bike was parked outside Montrose Beach for Wavefront Music festival during July 4th holiday. The bike was straight across from the entrance amongst many other bikes that were locked up. My friend and I decided to lock both of our bikes together to the metal fence with a kryptonite ulock and chain. The chain went through both wheels and frame of both bikes. We came to find that there was no trace of bikes or lock, or damage to fence.