Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Stolen bike was chained to a two bike stand, along with my wife's 'shopping bike' - an almost new beach cruiser type three speed machine. The two were almost hidden at the rear of our car park space by our car, and an unlocked shopping type bike leant against the same wall a few feet away. Garage is supposedly 'secure' but we suspect tradesmen have more access to keys than they should have. We drove into our parking space at 3PM on the afternoon of the 28th. Our condo building is still under heavy unit construction, so were not surprised to see two tradesmen in the further part of the garage, near a typical white panel van. At 11PM, we had to leave our building, by car. We got in the car, my wife spotted that my bike was missing. The fairly hefty cable lock had been cut through by a bolt or cable cutter - the sort of tool those workers would likely have had in their van. They were outside contractors for the building company who is finishing off units in our building. The rep for that company stated that all workers they hire are well known to them and cannot see them stealing a bike so blatantly. Sure... A police report was filed, awaiting the paper copy being mailed to me as this was entered. The bike had rear panniers on a Performance Bicycle rack, with a U lock in one pannier - no key - and a crash helmet slung over the ends of the bars. It was fitted with white plastic fenders. The handlebars are FSA 'Wing Pro' low drop compact bars, that I had handy and fitted myself - these alone make the bike stand out. My wife's bike and another unlocked bike some few feet away were left untouched, which suggests this street trash is a cyclist, or knows something about bikes.

The bicycle was locked in front of my apartment building overnight. Although I didn't habitually leave it locked outside, I had done so recently. It seems likely that someone had seen it there before, rather than coming upon it by chance.

My new white women's treck WSD 7100 bike was locked to a bike rack with a kryptonite u-lock at 6:45 am on 6-2 right under the stairs of the ashland green line el stop. At 7pm when I returned the bike was missing. The u-lock was cut and the top portion was lying on the floor.

I had biked to work and locked it to the bike rack outside of my office as I have done for the past few weeks. I saw the bike when I went to lunch at around 12:30pm but when I left the office at 4:30 it was gone. There was no sign of it being stolen just no longer on the bike rack. I used a cable with an integrated key lock which I've used for years but clearly that was not enough to keep my bike safe.

Bike was locked with a newer u-lock with flat key to a street sign in front of building @ ~6pm. Went to sleep @ ~12:00 am. Midnight noticed entire sign dug out and missing, along with my bike (described) and girlfriend's bike attached to it.

I locked my bike up at around 7pm when I got home for the night with a newer u-lock with a flat key. When I awoke in the morning the street sign it was locked to was pulled from the ground and the bike was missing. The police wouldn't even come out to fill out an report.

My bike and another bike were locked with newer U-locks with flat keys to a street sign outside of a residential building. At midnight, when we went to bed, the bikes were still there. Although our windows were open all night, we didn't hear any noise from the sign being removed, but in the morning (at the latest 6:45am) there was a huge hole, broken concrete, and no sign of the bikes or the street sign.

BIKE WAS THERE AT LUNCH 12 NOON MISSING WHEN CAME OUT OF WORK AT 4 PM

This bike was taken from our bike storage area in our condo building.

Bike was stolen from a basement unlawfully. Caught the guy on surveillance video. Male mid 20s to mid 30s. 5'7" to 6'. small build wearing a white t-shirt with jeans. Dark hair with a decent sized BALD spot in back.

I left this bike out on our locked, and enclosed back porch. Someone wheeled a garbage can next to the window, climbed in, and walked out the side door with this bike. All of this happened while we were sleeping in our room that faced the back porch area.

Bike had been U-locked to the fence in a back yard and had last been seen at about 4pm on 5/29. Discovered bike was missing at about midnight. Cardboard boxes had been placed where the bike had been locked. Lock was not left behind.

stolen some time between 7:30pm Monday, May 30, 2011 (Memorial Day) and 8am Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Bike was locked with ulock on front wheel and frame, directly in front of parked vehicle, Toyota Matrix. This is a purchased parking spot! Bike has San Marcos bike seat.

Bike was locked up with a combo cable lock to a railing on 3rd floor rear entrance with access from the alley. Entrance light was on keeping the area well lit. Between 11pm on May 30 and 7am May 31, 2011 the cable of the lock was cut and bike was taken. The lock was left at the scene.

Two bikes were locked to a city bike rack, on the corner of Michigan and Madison, using two cable locks. We went into the restaurant in the park to use the restroom. We returned less than 10 minutes later to find my bike gone, the cable cut, laying on the ground. The other bike was still there but the second cable lock was also gone. Nobody in the area came forward with any information so we conducted a small, limited search of the area. We had problems contacting CPD on the phone so we walked to the station at State and 18th to file a report.

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The bike was sitting unlocked in a garage. I came back to the garage with the door down and the bike gone.

I feel that my lock was cut and my bike was stolen.

Stolen from my garage.

My bike and a Trek 7100 were locked together to a street sign across the street from, and in front of 1 West Superior. My Cannondale was stolen - his Trek was left behind. The cable was cut and left still threaded through the Trek.