Two Children Missing; Last Seen In Uptown

Update: According to The Broken Heart of Rogers Park, the boys were found and are safely home.

Lorraine Swanson of the News-Star alerted us to this breaking story. We hope the two boys are found and are okay.

Two Rogers Park boys missing
Police Searching Their Route Home from Camp in Uptown

Police are looking for two 9-year-old Rogers Park boys who did not get home yesterday afternoon from a summer camp in Uptown. Both boys live in Rogers Park, on the 1300 block of West Touhy.

Officer Brady of the 24th Police District confirmed that police and Area 3 detectives are out on the streets and in the parks of the Far North lakefront looking for the boys. Brady said he did not know how long the boys have been missing, but that unconfirmed reports from residents questioned by police put the time at Friday afternoon.

The parents of the boys were at the 24th District police station at 6:45 a.m. Saturday to report them missing, Brady said.

The boys' names have not been released, but neighbors in Rogers Park say the first names of the missing 9-year-olds are Khalid and Ali. Both boys are from Nigeria; they were last seen leaving the Sunlight African Community Center at 4554 N. Broadway.

The boys are a little taller than 5 feet. One was wearing a red Phat Farm T-shirt; the other was in a shirt with vertical stripes. Residents said they were told by police that both boys knew their way home to Rogers Park from Uptown.

Police have not issued an Amber Alert, but Brady said that a police radio flash message has been issued, and that officers from the 23rd and 24th police districts in Uptown and Rogers Park are out searching for the boys.