An Evanston Township High School student who had been missing for 10 days was reunited with her family Thursday, police said.

Chicago police found 15-year-old freshman Chanel Contreras at a children’s center in Chicago on Thursday morning after being tipped off by an anonymous caller, said Cmdr. James Elliot of the Evanston Police Department.

Contreras had not been seen since Jan. 14, when she did not return to school after lunch. A public notice of her disappearance was issued by EPD Tuesday.

Evanston Police confirmed Thursday that Contreras is at home and in good condition. They believe that she left of her own free will, and no foul play is suspected.

Both police departments said they were not sure of the name of the children’s center where Contreras was found, and they didn’t know how long she had been there. No other details were immediately available.

Contreras was brought to the Chicago 23rd District police station after being found at the center on Wilson Avenue and Broadway Street, Elliot said. Chicago Police were able to confirm her identity based on the information from a missing persons report, and immediately notified EPD.

After being brought to Evanston by Chicago Police, Contreras was reunited with her mother at about noon.

The family is planning to move to Newport News, Va., next week.

Contreras is a “relatively vibrant young lady,” said Terrance Doby, assistant director of safety at ETHS. “She’s just a typical teenager, I think.”

Doby, who spoke to The Daily before it was known that Contreras was found, said that he hadn’t noticed any atypical reaction from the student population at ETHS and attributed that to the lack of publicity for the case.

“I don’t know that it’s been widely publicized,” he said. “I haven’t heard anyone talking in the halls about it.”

The ETHS Parent Teacher Student Association also had not discussed the incident, said board member Mary Jo Boyer.

“We have not had a meeting since this happened,” she said. “I can’t say it has ever come up.”

Boyer said that in the three years she had been on the PTSA, the members had never discussed an incident of this nature.

Elliot said that runaways are a “pretty routine thing” that EPD deals with on a regular basis.

“We get a number of runaways during the week,” he said. “(They) usually end up coming back within a day or two.”

The public notification of the situation was issued because EPD was concerned that Contreras had been missing so long, especially in light of the frigid weather conditions recently, Elliot said. They hoped the notice would spur public help in the search.

“(It’s) not a usual occurrence that we have juveniles missing for that period of time,” Elliot said. “Because it was a matter of eight days, that’s why we reached out to various media outlets … to help us out and put word out that we were looking for her.”

The missing persons report and public notification have both been canceled, Elliot said.

“As far as we’re concerned, the case is over with, she’s been reunited with her parents,” he said. “It came to a good conclusion because she’s well and back where she belongs.”

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