Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Bike was seen in the morning, locked up in my usual spot to a small tree right in front of my building. Later in the evening it was gone. The tree looks fine, the lock is gone.

I was inside the Eleven Street diner eating breakfast, came out, bike was gone. My car was parked in front of a police car! Bike rack appeared to be untouched, lock was missing, bungey cord was hanging from rack. I had the bike just one week. I anyone has any information whatsoever it would be appreciated, thanks!

Bike was locked by cable thru rear wheel only in a locked private garage. Garage was broken into (locked man-door forced) and rear wheel was left at scene. Bike gone and garage door to alley open.

Bike was stolen while I was inside Subway.

The bicycle was locked with a U-lock to a bracket designed for hanging bikes. The bracket was attached to a concrete pillar. The thief ripped the entire bracket off the concrete wall.

I left work to find my lock cut, on the sidewalk. The bike was stolen from a busy corner in front of the Sears Tower, on a workday, in broad daylight. I attempted to file a police report, but they would not allow me to file a police report without a serial number.

My building has an enclosed garage, inside of which there is a bike rack. This rack, however, is not sufficient for the number of bikes in the building, so there are 20-30 bikes left unlocked in the garage at any given time. I last ride my bike on the afternoon of May 16 and went down this afternoon (Sunday 5/31 3:00pm) to take it out and it was nowhere to be found. The area of the garage where the bikes are kept is not visible to people walking by the building, so I can only assume that it was taken by someone in my building.

bike stolen from closed garage via forced entry while I was gone over Memorial Day weekend. Locked to self with U-lock.

bike regularly locked to light pole in high pedestrian traffic area for 7-9 hours at a time between 9a-6p, allowing someone to plan the heist with minimal risk.

bike was stolen from within the locked apartment building hallway.

I broke the key in the lock after locking the bike. Being about 7pm, no locksmiths were open to take the lock off. I went home. Returned with the locksmith to the where the bike was locked the next day to find only the wheel. I locked the frame and wheel to the bike rack. Thief unscrewed the bike from the frame, and slid the bike from the lock and the the rack.

Bike stolen from our garage between 1:00 am and 10:00 am on Monday, 05/25. Probably used to transport the lawnmower the thief also stole.

I was briefly stopping by a friends house at 516 N. May St with my roomates. The 3 of us had left our bikes in a 8 foot tall fenced in porch, and had gone right inside the door off of the porch to have a conversation. With the windows open, and a dog running around, someone must have lifted the bike over the fence and gotten away with it without a noise. The 2 other bikes that were on the porch went un-touched. We searched the area, and called the police shortly after. Still no updates.

i just learned of this site, that's why the delay in posting. i realize i probably won't see the bike again. i'd ridden the bike from home to lincoln park zoo. locked it to a bike rack - and this is my mistake - thought i'd only be a minute and locked the front tire to the rack only (with a U-lock). ended up being gone longer than i orginally thought. came back and the front tire was still there and the bike was gone.

The bike had been in the same location for several days. I thought it was safe since it was locked through both wheels & the frame to the railing of my apartment complex in a lit area. Unfortunately the plastic coated cable obviously was easy enough to cut through.

I left the bike there locked over night. The manager Keith said that he broke the lock and left it in the dumpster area. Then it was gone. Either he has it or an employee has it

The bike was in the backyard, with both gates to the yard locked, though it was not chained to anything. Someone had to scale a six foot fence and lift the bike over that same fence to steal it. It also seems likely it was someone who lives in or knows the neighborhood (the Lakeview YMCA is just across the alley), because it is hard to see into the backyard from the alley, and most of the hours in which the bike could have been stolen were nighttime hours with little light. We know the bike was stolen between 7:30 PM on Sunday, 5.17.09, and 9:30 AM on Monday, 5.18.09. I currently have no job, and am just living week to week, so would love to get this bike back, though it seems like a longshot. Please help if you can...$100 cash reward for info leading to bike recovery.

Bike was most likely sold at Maxwell Street Market in South Loop. A witness claims to have seen the bike at Diversey/Halstead around noon the same day.

Went outside on Sunday afternoon and my baby was gone!

Bike was locked in front of Rush University while I my husband was visiting his mom at Rush. Came out to check on it a few times during the day, like he had done on previous days when he had locked it up to the same bike rack. There was even a security camera trained directly on the sidewalk where it was locked up which didn't deter the thieves. Three other bikes were stolen the same day, including one locked with a ulock. He had the bike seat so unless it's been replaced by the thief, it will be missing the original Schwinn seat. The worst part about it being stolen besides the loss of transportation is that my brother gave me the bike when he worked for Schwinn so it has sentimental value.