Search on for missing West Chicago woman

Police continued Saturday to investigate the disappearance of a West Chicago woman last seen in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, as friends and family passed our fliers with her photos in hopes of finding her.

Marcie Schulien, 48, was last seen around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday near 53rd Street and Cornell Avenue. She and her husband, Robert Schulien, were helping paint a friend's condominium when her husband said she suddenly left, leaving behind her identification, credit cards and cell phone.

Robert Schulien said Saturday that he's growing increasingly concerned and that his wife had been acting differently in the last week. "She always thinks before acting, but her behavior in the last week has been out of character," he said.

He said police told him Saturday that a mechanic at a nearby Hyde Park gas station spoke with his wife shortly after she left the condominium. Marcie Schulien asked for money so that she could go to Union Station, but the mechanic didn't give her anything, he said.

Schulien said times have been tough because he's been out of work for more than two years. His wife, a systems analyst at a Westchester company, has been the sole financial provider.

The couple have four dogs and no children.

Schulien is described as standing 5-foot-8, weighing 140 pounds, with blond hair and green eyes. She was wearing a dark blue T-shirt, dark blue hoodie jacket with maroon lining and white gym shoes. Her clothing was splattered with paint.

Friends and family have plastered fliers around Hyde Park and downtown at both train stations. And police said Schulien may have found her way back to West Chicago, where the couple lives on the 200 block of East Washington Street.

Anyone with information should call 911 or the Special Victims Unit at (312) 747-8385.