15-year-old girl missing from Washington Park

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Police are looking for a 15-year-old girl who was reported missing from the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.

Mikaylah Martin has been missing from the 5700 block of South Prairie since Thursday, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.

Martin is described as a 5-foot-1, 165-pound black girl with brown eyes, black hair and a dark complexion, police said.

She has been known to frequent the areas 57th and Wentworth, 57th and Damen, and 119th and Yale, according to police.

Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact Area Central detectives at (312) 747-8380.

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