Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Bike lock was clipped, lock left on the ground. Someone obviously knew what they were doing. The cut on the lock had rusty residue on it, implying the tools used were old.

I had just finished a 3 hour workshop at Moksha when an acquaintence came in saying someone had stolen the back wheel off a bike parked outside while he was watching - that he tried to confront and intimidate the man into giving the bike back, but he didn't have a cell phone and didn't know what to do. I looked outside and realized my bike had been completely stolen, and another bike on the same rack had had its rear wheel stolen (I was unable to locate the owner of the other bike). The wheel thief is a 5'10 African-American man with dreadlocks, carrying the wheel and a plastic garbage bag. He was last seen heading southeast on Milwaukee Ave. I searched the surrounding area on foot as best I could, including an abandoned looking homeless camp-out area near where the interstate goes by.

The only people with access into our building are UPS, FedEX, and messengers. We know both our UPS and FedEX delivery people but it could have been a messenger... It also could have been someone who sees me ride everyday and bring my bike upstairs into our office. People can buzz up to an office and simply SAY, "FedEX" and usually be buzzed in with no questions asked. This could have been the situation.

Bike was left on the back porch while I was coming in and out to grill. The back porch faces the alley between Marshfield and Ashland.

I locked my bike and left it to go to an interview. When I came back in an hour it was gone. No one in the area had noticed anything. It happened right in the middle of the day. The bike is not easy to conceal as it is a big mountain bike.

Our automatic garage door opener was unknowingly & accidentally triggered.Opening the garage door late at night.Easy access for theives.

at around 8pm, there were some noise where i have the bike locked. i think that multiple persons actually pulled the sign post out and took the bike fully locked. the pole were loosely fitted into the ground the morning i found the bike missing.

Locked garage was broken into. Bike and other item was stolen.

Photo provided is not actual bike, but this is the kind and almost exact coloring. Locked bike up at el station around 8:45 a.m., got on train and went to work as always. But this time, when I got off the train coming home, my bike and its lock were gone. There was someone else's cut chain on the ground right where I left my bike. Guess someone got away with more than one bike today at the Halsted Orange Line station.

Party at my fraternity house, and someone gained access to our basement and took the bike out the front door. The bike was last seen by me around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 8th and was first noticed missing around noon the following day. UChicago fall sports players were present, and it is suspected that either a member of the women's volleyball team or a member of the men's football team.

bike was in parking lot locked toa fence on the side of Uptown Lounge. The lock appeared to not be touched, but the bike was gone. Very odd.

Victim was on the bike in front of the parking lot gate of Mark Sheridan when the three thieves came towards him and picked him off the bike. They then proceeded to steal the victim's bike and ran off with it.

Bike stolen from in front of Quiznos on Halsted just north of Wrightwood.

Bike was locked inside a gated yard but possibly visible from street to someone who was looking. Locked to a wrought iron fence with only a cable. Left the bike at 8pm and saw that it was gone without a trace at 6am the next morning.

Worked out for 1.5 hours at YMCA and went to leave and bike and lock were gone

The bike was locked up in my basement. I last used it on August 29th and when I went to do laundry the following Sunday, I noticed it had been stolen.

Bike was locked in a friend's basement over the summer. One of the roommates apparently left the basement door unlocked after doing laundry and the bike was stolen.

Our garage must have been left open around dusk and the bike was unlocked in the garage. We normally park our truck in the garage at night, but we were getting ready to go camping and our truck was in the drive as we loaded it for our trip or the other possibility was that it happened while my wife had the truck at her place of work. With the truck out of the garage this would have made it easier for the person to gain access to the bike. The bike was behind other bikes in the garage so the person specifically targeted the men's bike.

Someone got through my locked garage door and stole the bike which was not locked because I didn't think they could get at it through the locked garage. The seat is ripped, it's black and white "vintagey" looking.

I don't know exactly the date or time. It was the weekend of Aug 11-13. Market Days on Halsted was going on that weekend. I noticed it was gone that Monday or Tuesday. The lock was gone. It had been parked and locked around a no parking sign on my sidewalk outside my apartment building. I had just gotten it, so I don't have any pics.