CHICAGO – A. Wisconsin Family searches for answers after husband and father of two depart missing inside ChicagoWednesday night in the suburbs.

Ben Oberto, who lives in New Berlin, Wisconsin, works for a wine company and was last seen at 1776 Restaurant. Crystal Lakewhere he spends several hours for work. Security cameras showed him leaving the restaurant at 8.56pm and his car leaving the parking lot at 9.02pm.

From there, toll records and his phone’s signal indicate he was traveling on I-90. His I-Pass is registered at: Elgin He arrived at the Plaza at 21.27 in the evening and his phone rang last. Rosemont area around 21.47

Shortly after, the phone lost power and there has been no activity on his credit cards or phone since then.

He has difficulty explaining the situation to his wife, Laura Leatherberry, his 3-year-old son and 21-year-old daughter, who live in New York.

“Your mind can go to a lot of different places. I just want him to be alive,” Leatherberry said. “I don’t know what to tell my son right now. He has a daughter that I told her a few hours ago, she’s distraught and wants her daddy to be home.”

Oberto was driving a 2019 Subaru Impreza with Wisconsin license plate “ANJ 2349.”

Authorities in Crystal Lake and New Berlin have yet to confirm the missing person report, but his family is urging anyone with information to contact police.