The Evanston Police Department located a missing person on Tuesday evening, and announced on social media she was taken to a hospital.
Evanston Police Commander Ryan Glew said just before 6 p.m. that he had no information on her condition.
More Top Picks Best Electric Blanket
The department launched its drone Tuesday morning to search for the missing woman along the lakefront, it posted on its X page.
Glew said Tuesday morning the department was using the drone in its search for Northwestern University Professor Nina Kraus, who was reported missing on Monday, Sept. 1. The 72-year-old woman was last seen leaving her home in the 1500 block of Ashland to go for a walk at approximately 9 a.m. that day.
Glew said the department used its drone to search the lakefront around Church Street because Kraus likes to visit that area. “We need to search and fly the drone because that’s a better tool to search along the lake, along the rocks, along the water and so on and so forth,” he said.
According to Northwestern, Kraus is a professor of neurobiology and otolaryngology. She has authored the book “Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World,” which was selected as NPR’s Book of the Day. She has also made numerous presentations, appeared on podcasts and contributed to academic articles.
Kraus has written extensively on music, concussions, aging, speech, bilingualism, autism, technology and HIV through her work. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.