Chicago Stolen Bike Registry

Bike was locked to the 4" thick wooden support rail of my porch overnight. Was there @ 7am when I left for work in a downpour, but was gone by the time my neighbor awoke at noon. Thieves cut through porch railing with a reciprocating saw or jigsaw and removed spindles to free u-lock. ***

Second of my two bikes stolen from my locked garage overnight.

Both my bikes were taken from my locked garage. The garage was still locked when I realized they were missing.

Stolen from back porch, second story. Must have climbed up the side of the building to get it!

Bike was locked to the ceiling of my garage by two 3/8" eyebolts that were epoxied to the ceiling joists. A cable lock with padlock was used to lock both the front tire and rear tire to the frame and then the ceiling. In addition to the cable lock, there was a kryponite u-lock locking the front tire to the frame. Thieves broke into the garage and broke the eyebolts from the ceiling joists. Locks were carried off with the bike (there was no way they could ride it from the scene).

I went to a going away party and left the bike locked to a solid metal fence outside. When I went outside to leave the bike was gone along with my helmet and lock. There were no apparent signs of how the lock was defeated.

Bike parked outside of office building during normal work hours. Pretty public and well traveled area. Security camera footage available. Left me their 1/2 inch rachet socket in their rush. Hopefully some moron who works in my building did this.

My bike was stored inside my locked apartment building on the ground floor. Sometime between 2:00 AM and 9:00 AM, a thief (or thieves) picked the lock and broke in to our building (though not into my actual apartment thankfully). My bike was not locked to anything because it was stored inside a locked building (which I had assumed would be safe enough).

Went to visit friend in his apt. for a second. When I came down, bike was gone.

Bike lock was cut, lock and helmet left at the scene.

Bike was in foyer of apartment building on June 23 and was gone on the morning of June 24. Someone entered the (locked) apartment building and stole the bike. A neighbor's bike was stolen a month later, on July 23, when the lock to the front of the apartment building was broken.

Witnesses say a black man wearing blue shorts and a stripped shirt just walked off with the bike like it was his. Right in front of restaurant. with medium traffic. On Wells Ave. at Chicago. Perpetrator was said to have headed south on Wells Ave.

I regularly locked my bike to the metal hand rail of a bench in my yard. I may have accidentally left the bike unlocked, but it seems very unlikely. The bike was locked in the same place for over 2 weeks without incident. I'm usually visibly present around my house so maybe someone saw me come home on the bike and leave by foot this afternoon and decided to scope out the scene.

My bike was locked up behind my house with a U-lock to a wooden railing attached to my porch. This is adjacent to the alleyway and the parking area for my building. I found this morning that the railing had been broken in some way (not sawed through) and my bike was missing. It could have happened overnight or this morning before noon.

BIKE STOLEN FROM PATIO WITHIN 10 MIN

Bike frame was locked with a newer U lock to an iron fence post inside gated front yard. Iron fence post was cut in half with some sort of bolt cutter or tool. This is the second incident on this property within 2 months in which the bike was stolen by someone entering the gated front yard and using some type of tool to cut through the iron fence post and steal the bike.

Bike was locked through both wheels and frame to the bike rack, under the Irving Park Brownline CTA stop. New Kryptonite key cable lock, no sign of it or how they cut through it. It was taken between 3pm and Midnight.

Happened in front of Lukes / Subway on the South side of the Jackson. Mini Kryptonite U-lock was ground in half and thief rode off (per eyewitness). Eyewitness claims that thief was tall black man with dreads and was carrying portable grinder in messenger bag.

It was on the back porch which leads to a parking lot of a restaurant and into an alley. Someone came up and took the bike.

Stopped in for a quick bite at Birchwood Kitchen (window seat just outside my line of sight!) the bike was stolen not 10 feet away from me while I read my book and had a salad...becoming the most expensive salad I have ever purchased. Im assuming whoever stole it was a professional or at least someone who works with wire cutters. The lock was cut clean through and it was done fast, couldn't have taken them more than a couple minutes, street traffic was everywhere and it was in full daylight.