At-risk woman found after disappearing near South Side CTA bus stop nearly 2 weeks ago: family

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An at-risk missing woman has been found at a North Side hospital after disappearing near a South Side CTA bus station nearly two weeks ago, family told ABC7.

Felecia Bates went missing earlier this month, her family said.

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Bates is 49 years old. She suffers from both diabetes and schizophrenia. As of Sunday afternoon, she had likely been without her medication for 11 days, family said.

Bates was last seen at a CTA bus stop at 75th and Jeffrey. The problem was that she left home without her purse or a phone, according to her relatives. Because she used cash to pay for the bus, CTA was unable to track whether she actually got on the bus.

"We don't know for sure if she got on the bus or she didn't," Bates' brother, Steven Autry, said. "We just seen a person saying a person sitting on the bus stop and three buses past, they looked up, she was gone."

Because she did not like taking photos, her ID photo is the most current one her family has.

"I'm just hoping and praying that my daughter comes back safely," Felecia Bates' mother, Ruby Bates, said.

Calls to police, the CTA, hospitals, homeless shelters and even the medical examiner's office did not yield anything, until Monday.

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Autry said Montrose Behavioral Health Hospital saw ABC7's reporting on Bates and called police.

Bates is at the hospital, her family said, will be released following the completion of some paperwork. It is unclear how long she has been at the hospital.

This all comes after Bates' family went to Hyde Park, where they believe she was heading when she went missing on July 2 in South Shore, on Sunday.

"She said, 'I'm going over to Hyde Park, and I'll be back around dinner,'" her mother said. "That was the 2nd of July."

Setting out from Nichols Park, friends and family walked down 53rd Street, heading east. They handed out flyers with her picture on it, talking to whomever they could, hoping someone, somewhere might have seen her.

"We've been out here every day just passing out flyers, trying to get the word out," Bates' cousin, Angela Sanders, said.

A resident of South Shore, Bates lives at home with her mother and has rarely ventured out of her neighborhood, except to come to Hyde Park.

"She comes to the park. She may go to Starbucks. She talks to people," Bate's aunt, Callie Logan, said. "She gets back on the bus, and she returns home. She always returns before it's dark."

Luckily, Bates' family confirmed, she has been found.

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