Photo of Antwon Brown, Linda Kathleen Brown

A Chicago man is searching for his wife, a special education teacher who went missing on her way to an acupuncture appointment.

Linda Kathleen Brown, 53, vanished on her way to an appointment in Wicker Park on Saturday, January 3.

Her distraught husband, Antwon Brown, told police he last saw his wife in bed next to him on Friday night. He said she was gone when he woke up on Saturday morning.

“Everything was fine,” he said. “Next morning I woke up, it was like 8:35 a.m., and she was gone. No sign of her. I thought she went to acupuncture because she goes to acupuncture on Saturdays.”

Antwon said he was worried when his wife didn’t return home or call him all day Saturday.

“The hours that went past around 1:30, 2 p.m. I’m starting to wonder, like, ‘What’s going on?’ She hasn’t called me, because she normally would call me and tell me where she is going. She never did,” he said.

Antwon and Linda’s relatives pleaded with the public for information. They say she may be in need of medical assistance. She was scheduled to return to work Monday following a leave of absence.

Linda teaches at Robert Healy Elementary School in Bridgeport. The School’s principal, Erin Kamradt, notified families of her disappearance.

“I am terrified,” Antwon told NBC5. “I am just shaking. I need my wife home.”

He said Linda has her purse, credit cards and her cell phone with her. He called her phone repeatedly but she doesn’t answer.

Linda is described as 5 feet tall, weighing between 130 and 140 pounds. She was last seen wearing a long black puffy coat and shiny UGG-style boots.

Linda drives a blue Honda Civic with Illinois plate number CX57470.

Chicago police asked anyone with information to contact Area One Special Victims Unit detectives at 312-747-8380.

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