Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Bike was left in the bike storage area of the condo basement. Many bikes stored there. Last seen 3pm 12/14

Street sign (contained permit and street cleaning info) was cleanly cut down and bike (w/ lock attached) was stolen off of the stump of the sign. Sign was left in grass.

Not sure exactly when the bike was stolen. The garage was forced into sometime between December 9th afternoon and December 10th morning.

Some time between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Friday December 6, my bike was taken from our locked, enclosed back porch.

My Bike was locked to the Bike Rack in front of the Irving Park Blue Line Stop between Noon and 3:30pm. Someone at this time got through my back wheel guard and stole my Purple Infinity Frame and custom gold spoke back wheel. This is very important to me as a dear friend custom made these wheels for me. If you see this wheel anywhere, please contact me and the police.

In front of McKinley Park Library on 35th

I noticed this morning the back door to the storage area of building was wide open. Other building tenant saw bike was not in Garage. Another bike that was in the Garage is also missing. When I saw the door wide open I assumed another tenant had forgotten to close it or the wind blew it open. My guess is that someone came in through the back gate and entered the garage and carried the bike out. It is a heavy bike with a integrated rear wheel lock and the front wheel and frame secured with a heavy duty chain lock. It would have had to have been carried away.

I left it on the porch in the backyard and it isn't visible at all from the alley. The only way for someone to see it was for them to walk into the yard all the way to the steps that lead to both porches and all the apartment back door entrances. My bike was on the first level of the porch.

Stolen between 2:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on 12/02/13. Was locked to bike rack in front AKIRA / Urban Outfitters on Diversey.

Bike was locked in personal storage space. There is a common outer door, each space has own lock. Locks were not broken.

Bike was stored in personal, locked storage space. There is an outer door that is common and each storage unit has its own door. Person must live here because they knew exactly what unit to go to and they only took two bikes out of the three in there. Nothing else missing.

Bike was inside locked back hallway of 3543 N Southport (Paper Source) while at work. Bike was removed sometime between 2:15-5:30pm. Unfortunately, we currently don't have a picture of bike.

Our bikes were stolen from our garage in the early hours of Thanksgiving Day. They were locked with U-bolts to metal bars we had screwed (with un-retractable screws) to the studs in the garage. The wood was old so they just wrenched them free by breaking the wood.

Our two bikes were stolen from our garage in the early hours of Thanksgiving day. They were U-bolt locked to metal bars we had installed in the garage, metal bars into studs with un-retractable screws, but wood was old and they just wrenched the bikes off and the screws broke free with chunks of the old studs.

Bike was left inside of a locked, gated yard in front of a house. Bike was unlocked. Bike was left unattended from around 11AM and was missing when I arrived later in the day- around 5PM. The perp(s) would have had to jump the fence to get the bike.

Bicycle was locked to a street sign. The street sign has been removed from the ground.

So, my bike was stolen a few weeks ago from my locked basement storage room. Right when I noticed it was missing, I called the police and looked for the bike on craigslist. To my surprise, it was for sale less the 12 hrs after it was stolen, although using a generic photo for the craigslist posting. Realizing quickly that the detective wasn't even going to return my calls, I set up a time to go see the bike with a friend and sure enough it was mine. Shortly after viewing it, I approached the seller about it being a stolen bike. He said his friend gave it to him as a trade because he was owed some money, so I would have to pay off his debt to get it back. I negotiated down a bit and after a week and a few hundred dollars, I got my bike back. I immediately moved it up to my 3 season storage space connected directly to my apartment which, including the gate to enter the property, had three locked doors between the general public and my bike. Unfortunately, I learned shortly after the bike disappeared for a second time, that these locks are pickable. I hadn't even ridden the bike again since I got it back the first time, so this is no doubt some kind of a racket. The thief knew I got my bike back and returned to steel it again. The bike means a lot to me since it was purchased weeks after my best friend passed away in a bike accident on Western and Logan in 2008. I've accepted that I wont see it again (and if I do, it's a great bonus), but hope that sharing this story informs others to be very careful about what to do with your bike once getting it back from a theft.

Was parked outside a Walmart over on Diversey Ave. Dad went in, came out an hour later, no bike.