Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Moved into new apartment in building with bike storage room. Needed to take my one lock for the bike I was riding (the one I keep in my apt). Left this one unlocked for all of 24 hours. Gone. Stupid, stupid me. The bike was too big for me. But I want my badger head back!

My bike was parked in my garage. I assume one of my tenants left my garage open on accident and someone must have walked in and taken my bike. If anyone sees this bike, please contact me. Thanks much.

Went out for a morning ride, didn't lock the bike up but put it under stairs. Came back home at 1:30, and bike was gone.

Taken from a concealed section of a well-lit backyard.

The picture is taken from the website so the fender isn't there but that's a dead on match for my stolen bike. I locked the bike up at night to a no parking sign. I woke up and the sign had been pulled out of the ground. My bike and lock were gone. Any help is appreciated.

My bike was stolen in front of the Atrium on the UIC campus. It was stolen sometime between 8:00pm Saturday night and 1:30am Sunday morning. It was locked to a bike rack with a rather thin, cable combination lock. It was in a well lit area with pedestrian traffic, so I was surprised it was stolen.

The bike was left near the UIC dental school. When going out for lunch, the bike was gone. Locked properly. Has been on that rack before, may have been scoped out.

The bike was left on our back deck, on the third floor of our apartment complex.

Bike stolen from bike rack at Ravenswood station. 15 bikes were locked at the rack, and my bike, possibly with others, was stolen. This must have involved cutting the combination cable lock. This bike rack is in a conspicuous public view so the theft is likely to have been witnessed.

Bike was locked up to bike rack on beach. I was sitting 20 yards away. I believe someone was probably there with a gym bag or backpack that had bolt cutters. cased the me, the situation and the bike rack. When the crowd thinned the probably acted as if it was there bike bent to act like opening the lock, cut it and rode away. There was a guy with long sand light brown hair, white rimmed sunglasses, I believe a white shirt 6 feet or so, who was there most of the time I was. He left before I did...but it could have been anyone. The person who stoled the bike was most likely not wearing bike shoes and may or may not have looked out of place on this bike or had a little harder time riding since the pedals are so small.

I left the bike parked outside of Amundesen school. When, I came to unlock it, I attached the seat bag and then couldn't find my keys. I went back into the school at 3:30 to look for my keys. When I returned at 4:00pm, the bike was gone but my lock with the key in it was on the ground right by where my bike had been. I must have started to unlock the bike and become distracted and thought I'd misplaced the keys and left the keys in the lock. I bet one of the students around bike rack watched me leave the key in the lock and took the bike as soon as I went into the school. The other possiblity is that the keys were in the seat bag, but I remember checking there before I went inside.

This bike was stolen from a storage room in the basement of my apartment. Both doors lock, although apparently there have been a rash of thefts in the same type of rooms lately in the area. The bike was locked to a washtub with metal framework. I hate people sometimes.

This bike was found in my carport on the morning of 8October2008. It is a red Magna Outreach that appears to have been built April 5 1999 (according to the stamp on the crank housing). If it sounds like your bike, email me the serial number and/or a description of the bike. If it you can offer a reasonably accurate description (with distinguishing features) or serial number then I will arrange to get your bike back to you. All the best!

I left for work on the train last Monday, and when I came back my bike was missing. Also, my lock was gone. The theft could have happened at any time between 8 and 5 pm. (The bike no longer had baskets on the back as in the uploaded photo.)

Bike was hanging in our garage and was stolen while the garage door was open at night. I don't have a pic of the bike so I have attached a stock photo. My bike looks just like this with the addition of the LP Carbon flat bar and LP Carbon Grips bar ends, plus the Selle Italia Flite Saddle.

When I walked out the morning after it was stolen the rear gate to the backyard was open. Normally the dogs run away if that's the case so I think sometime between walking the dogs and leaving for work someone entered through the gate, broke into the garage through the side door, grabbed the bike and fled. But it's entirely possible the bike was stolen over the course of the night.

My bike was locked up outside the library across the street from my house. I left it there overnight and used it to commute and run errands during the day. I last rode it on Wednesday September 24, 2008. I noticed it was missing on Monday September 29, 2008. When I went in the library to ask if they had seen anything suspicious, the branch manager told me that he had reported the bike as abandoned to the police. I have checked w/the police and Department of Transportation, but neither have my bike. So, although the circumstances seem strange, I can only assume it was stolen. I had the locking skewers on the tires and seat, and a small bulldog u-lock attaching the frame to the rack.

At the metra station in downtown wilmette - locked to the bike rack with a New York Kryptonite chain and u lock. Please help locate my bike - police report and bike serial number to come. thanks, D

my bike was left in the back of my building under the stairs over night on accident and poof next day it was gone.

My bike was sitting in the courtyard of my apartment building. Someone left our gate open between the hours of 7pm and 2 am.