A dozen or more people on the North Side of Chicago are suddenly in the market for new car windows, after Chicago police said multiple cars were broken into overnight in Lincoln Park.

One of the car owners caught the burglars on camera.

Even though it was a rough start to Christmas Eve, David Schneider won't put the holidays on hold. He's in good spirits, considering the state of his driver's side window.

"It can always be worse," he said.

At 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, police officers responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle found several cars had been broken into in the 2100 and 2200 blocks of North Magnolia Avenue, including Schneider's Volvo.

"They didn't get anything out of my car, because there was nothing in it," he said.

A bunch of his neighbors also had their cars burglarized.

"All my neighbors were out; all the cars that got hit," he said.

CBS News Chicago counted about a dozen cars with shattered windows. Schneider's security camera caught the crew responsible in action.

"You know, he was the driver, and two guys got out, and they had hoodies and masks on, and those were the guys that were beating down the windows looking for stuff," he said. "Maybe they were just out kind of joyriding looking for something to do, because I don't think it could be that lucrative."

Area 3 detectives were investigating. No one was in custody on Wednesday.

"They were in and out of here pretty quickly," Schneider said.

Schneider said he's grateful to the neighbor who did a great job patching up his broken window with plastic and duct tape, but his last-minute Christmas wish is a new window.

"It's going to look a lot better than that," he said.

Schneider said it'll cost him about $500 to replace his window.