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Rolling Meadows Man Missing 10 Days After Last Seen In Chicago

An $11,000 reward is being offered for information that helps locate Vasudevareddy​ Kethireddy, 76.

ROLLING MEADOWS, IL — Family members and Rolling Meadows police are still searching for a 76-year-old man who went missing 10 days ago on the South Side of Chicago. An $11,000 reward is being offered for finding Vasudevareddy Kethireddy, and volunteers searched the West Englewood neighborhood where he was last seen.

According to police, Kethireddy left his Rolling Meadows home at 8 a.m. Aug. 4, and he was last seen on security camera video at around 4 p.m. at the Chase Bank at 6940 Ashland Ave., in Englewood. He was driving a 2005 white Toyota Prius at the time, authorities said.

Police later found Kethireddy's car last week near 60th and May streets, the Chicago Tribune reports. The car's license plates had been removed, but it's unclear if anything else had been taken from the car, the report added.

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On Sunday, around 70 volunteers scoured the area where Kethireddy was last seen, the report stated. He had been on the South Side collecting rents on the properties he owns there, the report stated.

"We were hoping we would find some answers Sunday, but it’s a lot of territory to cover," Shantan Kethireddy, the missing man's son, told the Tribune.

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Kethireddy is 5 feet, 5 inches and weighs about 135 pounds. Anyone with information about his whereabouts should call the Rolling Meadows Police Department at 847-255-2416, .

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Vasudevareddy Kethireddy (Photo via Rolling Meadows Police Department)

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