Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Bike was stolen off an elevated back porch, 15-20 ft off the ground, with two locked doors an a locked gate.

Stolen from garage

bike was taken sometime between 12-6pm saturday 10/21/17

A robber broke into my condo building. He broke through the back entrance, and broke into the secured back stairwell. He stole my bike.

Bike was locked outside a hospital - stolen some time during a 11am-7pm work shift but no idea of when or how.

Actual date unknown but occurred within the last month. Fairly new bike. Taken from locked storage room. Mine and several neighbors' bikes stolen.

It is unclear how the bike was stolen from the garage as we believe it was locked up as it always is to the bike wall rack.

I left my bike yesterday (11/16) at 7pm locked in front of our building. Today in the afternoon I found cut chain lock.

Locked bike to bike rack with a LiteLock around the front tire and frame. Sometime between that night and the next afternoon, the bike was taken. No sign of the lock nor any sign of cutting/grinding/sawing was found.

Bike was stolen from the Armitage CTA stop. Lock and bike were both gone when I returned to retrieve my bike after working in the loop during the day.

Went to get bike out of basement where I had left it after Friday commute. The (supposed to be locked) basement door was wide open and my bike was missing. I know the door was locked behind me when I put the bike away on Friday because I always check the handle. There were no obvious signs of forced entry.

Stolen, from W Division in Wicker Park, U-Lock was cut through both sides, half of lock left as scene. Occurred over night during flood and heavy rain conditions.

I believe someone ran into my garage while I was working on my car.

On 10/17/17, the CSBR received an email from the former victim: "My bike and a substantial amount of booze were stolen from the back of my place of work (Revel Room in Wicker Park) right at last call on Friday night. After closing time, we reviewed camera footage, circled the entire neighborhood, filed a police report, etc. The following night around 10:00pm, the thief thought it'd be a good idea to come back to the scene of the crime (idiot) likely thinking he and his friends could get away with stealing more booze. He was arrested in front of the bar, and he later admitted to everything. The cops then found my bike in his parents' garage. Unfortunately none of the booze was recovered with the exception of two partially consumed bottles. I was then finally able to ride my bike home from the police station at 6:00 Sunday morning. I'm still blown away by how everything came full circle in the matter of 24 hours. I couldn't be more thankful for the Chicago bike community and for all the friends who spread the word on this incident." I bartend at The Revel Room in Wicker Park. For the last 2.5 years, I've been riding my bike to work and have kept it in the very back near our office and walk-in cooler. It is an employees only area. On Friday night at 1:20am I stepped to the back behind our building to take a 5 minute break. I noticed my bike was outside tucked between two buildings. I thought to myself "that's strange and also not cool." I took the bike back inside (the back door automatically locks from the outside) and asked my entire staff if they had touched or moved my bike outside. They all replied with an honest "no." After 2:00am rolls around, we are closing the bar, my door guy and I notice that my bike is no longer in the back. He rides around the neighborhood (twice) and doesn't see anything. We take a look at the security cameras and see my barback taking a quick smoke break in the back around 1:25am, the bike is still there. Not even 5 minutes after he comes back in at exactly 1:30am, there is a man frantically walking out the back door with my bike and 3 to 4 bottles of alcohol. He snuck right past my floor past at the exact moment that we were doing last call at the bar. My door guys recognized him from the camera and identified him as being roughly 6 feet tall, thin, hispanic, very long hair in a pony tail, and a beard, mid to late twenties. Once I collected myself, I then filed a police report.

Side door of garage smashed in. This bike usually not kept there. Other bikes in garage we're locked together and safe.

A man opened our front gate (locked) and proceeded around side of building to back stairway area. Two bikes were locked - one female bike with a solid lock and the men's with a cable and padlock. The man cut the cable and exited out the front entrance in broad daylight. We have security camera footage and you can clearly see his face. He is an below average in height (about 5/6") man with shaved head and small mustache - either light skin African American or Hispanic. He was wearing a silver/grey colored puff vest; a navy blue sweatshirt under that; and gloves. I can supply the camera footage if anyone wants it.

We have a bike parking area behind two keycard accessed entry doors. It was brought in around 10am and left overnight (stolen between 5pm and 7am the next day). Another bike was stolen at the same time.