Sinead O’Connor found safe after going missing near Chicago

Singer Sinead O’Connor has been found safe after being reported missing outside of Chicago, police in Wilmette, Ill., said Monday.

“O’Connor has been located. She is safe and is no longer listed as a missing/endangered person,” police said in a statement.

Authorities did not say where she was found. Wilmette is about 20 miles north of Chicago along Lake Michigan. She was reported missing to local authorities after she was last seen riding a Raleigh motorized bicycle at 6 a.m. Sunday.

According to the Chicago Tribune, O’Connor has been living in Wilmette since late February. She performed with the David Bowie cover band Sons of the Silent Age at a Bowie tribute concert in the area on March 4, singing “Sorrow” and “Life on Mars.”

Last fall, the Irish singer and songwriter posted a note on her Facebook account saying she had taken an overdose of sleeping pills, writing that she was distressed about “a horrific set of betrayals” by some members of her family.

“There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear,” she wrote in November. “There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I’m at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name. If I wasn’t posting this, my kids and family wouldn’t even find out.

“Was dead for another fortnight since none of them bother .... with me for a minute,” she wrote. “I could have been dead here for weeks already and they’d never have known.”

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A look at Sinead O’Connor’s career.

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Sinead O’Connor performs at an outdoor plaza at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York for a taping of CBS’ “The Early Show” on June 12, 2000.

  (Tina Fineberg / Associated Press)

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Sinead O’Connor performs on “Che Tempo che Fa” in Milan, Italy, on Oct. 5, 2014.

  (Antonio Calanni / Associated Press)

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Sinead O’Connor receives flowers from the audience during a performance at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 20, 2012.

  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Sinead O’Connor performs at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 20, 2012.

  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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Sinead O’Connor performs at the Linda McCartney tribute at London’s Royal Albert Hall on April 10, 1999.

  (Sean Dempsey / Associated Press)

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Sinead O’Connor’s most memorable pop culture moment came in 1992 when she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II during a live appearance in New York on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” after performing a cover version of Bob Marley’s “War.”  (File photo / Associated Press)

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Sinead O’Connor has released nine albums during her career, beginning with 1987’s “The Lion and the Cobra” on Ensign / Chrysalis Records. The album sold 2,500,000 copies worldwide.  (Richard Drew / Associated Press)

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Despite a six-year gap between albums, Sinead O’Connor continued to make music and tour sporadically. In 1998 O’Connor performed a stand-out set at Lilith Fair at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.  (Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times)

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In 1999, Sinead O’Connor, who famously tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live,” became an ordained priest of the Latin Tridentine Church, a conservative Christian sect not officially recognized by the Catholic Church.  (Jim Cooper / Associated Press)

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UPDATES:

12:56 p.m.: This article has been updated with information that Sinead O’Connor was living in the Chicago area.

12:27 p.m.: This article was updated with news that O’Connor had been found.

The first version of this article was published at 10:24 a.m.