Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

I was at soccer practice on the turf field at Montrose and Lake Shore Drive. My bicycle was in a heap of 5 or so bicycles on the south goal side, and someone came up and rode off on my bicycle, noted too late to catch.

The bike was stolen out of my storage unit. Someone in my building probably left our garage door open and the storage door must not have been closed properly.

The bike is stored in my storage unit inside a garage. The door to the storage unit was not fully closed, but the lock was locked. Someone in my building probably left garage door open.

It was stolen from the underground garage in my apartment building. I had it secured to a post with a cable and lock. They just cut the cable and goodbye. I will never use a cable again! I believe someone left the garage door open or the thief just walked in behind someone that was walking into the building and went downstairs to the garage to take a bike of his choice, which was mine.

someone was able to get into basement probably late at night or early am with some type of bolt cutters or saw. Probably walked in behind someone to get into building. Cut u-lock and rode off. This is not the first time a bike has been stolen from building. We are going thru videotapes now to see if they can get a picture of person.

Bike was locked (front wheel and frame)[newer U-lock w/flat key] to metal railing within gated porch area in front of apartment. Possible that gate was left open as it's shared with the other apartments. Metal bars that it was affixed to broken, either cut or simply pryed to breaking (approx. 0.5" thick bars, not hollow).

My roommate left the garage door open overnight, and three bikes were taken from the garage overnight.

Stolen from the back alley of our apartment building. Was locked to a wooden railing... thief pulled off the post to which the bicycle was locked. U-lock would be around the bottom section of the frame.

The bike room storage door was kicked in and the bike was stolen

The door was kicked and the bike was stolen.

Locked the bike with a Kryptonite U-lock through the rear wheel, frame, and around a stop sign post at about 9pm on Thursday, April 14th. I ensured the sign post was not removable, as I park there regularly. I also had a cable running through the front wheel to the lock. When I returned to the bike the next morning the bike, lock, and cable were entirely gone. It's at the corner residential of Webster and Fremont in Lincoln Park, which while it isn't a busy corner overnight, should have some traffic down Webster here and there. Either the lock picked, sawed off (I don't think too likely), or I absentmindedly didn't lock it around the post. I ride daily and have had a bike stolen once before so I'm pretty strict about guarding against this possibility.

I left the area around 4:00pm the bike was still locked to the rack. I think someone stood there acting like, they were unlocking my bike and snapped the cable rode off with my bike. It' a possibilty the bike is in a flea market.

went inside to get cup of coffee and bike was taken immediately.

Left for work at 11:30am on Thursday, 4/14, and returned home at 6pm that evening - the bike had been stolen. I live in the coach house and the bike was locked up right outside my front door - so someone knew what they were coming for and left my neighbor's locked bike in the yard undisturbed.

I rode my bike to run the Shamrock Shuffle and when I went to go home, it was gone.

Bike was stolen in broad daylight at a location that has a lot of traffic. The bike had to have been cut with a power saw and somehow the lock was twisted off.

The bicycle was chained to a singe/double bike corral spot in front of Loose Leaf Tea shop on Broadway at around 5:15 pm on Wednesday the 13th. The cable lock was cut in broad daylight, right next to the bus stop and various cafe terrace chairs and tables.

I RARELY leave my bike outdoors, but I left it locked with a Kryptonite Series 4 Evolution U-lock. I made sure I didn't leave big spaces in the lock, and I kept it high off the ground to prevent crushing and to make leverage difficult. The pole was firmly cemented to the ground, and had stuff attached to the top. It was outside for six, maybe eight hours. In the morning I found the lock cleanly sawed through, and my baby no where in sight.

Some terrible person (probably a seasoned bike thief) used some sort of heavy duty mechanism to cut through my lock in the middle of the night leaving me depressed and with only my two feet as transportation.

The image is a stock image online, but I'll try to find a pic on my home computer soon. I think somebody either cut the U-lock if that's possible, or picked the lock. Without any evidence of cutting, I think it must've been picked. I tried to remove the street sign and it was thoroughly anchored into the ground, so there are no other ways I can see that it would've been removed. There might have been a car parked between the bike and the sign, therefore giving the thief some cover in performing the act. From now on I'll try to park my bike as close as possible to an active public area.