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‘High Risk' Missing 4-Year-Old Girl Found Safe: Police

A "high risk" 4-year-old girl missing from Chicago's West Side was found safe Sunday, according to police. 

Miracle Wheeler was reported missing after she was last seen around 12 p.m. Saturday near the 4400 block of West Van Buren in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, according to an alert from Chicago police.

She was located Sunday in the 5200 block of South Morgan Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the city's South Side, authorities said. 

Miracle was last seen with 22-year-old Rayonna Smith, a family friend of the child's mother and a known caretaker, according to police, who did not provide an update on Smith's whereabouts. 

Further details on the pair's disappearance and Miracle's subsequent location were not immediately available.

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