Chace Horton’s disappearance is publicly listed as beginning in Granite City, Illinois, where she was reported missing on December 26, 2025. Public missing-child records from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children identify Chace by name, list Granite City as the place she was missing from, and associate her case with NCMEC number 2072540. The available public information does not provide a detailed timeline of her final known movements, the circumstances leading up to her disappearance, or what she may have been doing that day, leaving the earliest part of the case defined by a painful lack of detail. What is clear from the public listing is that Chace was 19 years old when attention was drawn to her disappearance, and that her case was serious enough to be carried through national missing-child alert resources rather than only local word of mouth.
Granite City sits in Madison County, Illinois, near the St. Louis metropolitan area, and the official public contact attached to Chace’s case is the Granite City Police Department. NCMEC’s listing directs anyone with information to contact Granite City Police at 618-877-6111, and it also lists NCMEC’s 24-hour call center at 1-800-THE-LOST, or 1-800-843-5678. The Granite City Police Department’s official page confirms the same non-emergency number for police contact and lists police headquarters at 2330 Madison Avenue in Granite City, underscoring that tips in this case are meant to go through established law-enforcement channels.
Because so little has been released publicly, Chace’s case is one of those disappearances where the absence of information becomes part of the story. There are no widely available public details describing what she was wearing, who last saw her, whether she left on foot or by vehicle, or whether investigators have identified a specific direction of travel. No publicly accessible law-enforcement narrative found in the searched sources gives a fuller account of the hours before she was last seen. That means the public record, as it stands, centers on a young woman’s name, her age, the city where she was last seen, the date she was reported missing from that area, and the agencies asking to receive information. In a missing person case, even those limited facts matter because a remembered sighting, a conversation, a social media contact, or a small piece of location information can sometimes help fill gaps that official records have not yet explained.
An older public social media post connected to missing-person awareness also referred to a Chace Horton missing from the local Illinois area and used female pronouns, saying she could possibly still be nearby and urging people with information to contact law enforcement. That post predates the December 2025 Granite City listing and identifies Venice, Illinois, rather than Granite City, so it should be treated carefully and not blended into the newer public record as though it explains the 2025 disappearance. Still, it shows that Chace’s name has appeared before in public missing-person awareness spaces tied to the same broader Metro East region, making it especially important that any current information be directed to the official contacts listed for the Granite City case rather than left only in social media comments or informal discussions.
The available online record therefore tells a restrained but concerning story: Chace Horton, a 19-year-old young woman, was publicly listed as missing from Granite City, Illinois, after December 26, 2025, and her case was entered through NCMEC under case number 2072540. The public-facing details do not explain what happened before she vanished, where she may have gone afterward, or whether investigators have released any theory about her disappearance. The most reliable path for anyone who may know something is to contact the Granite City Police Department or NCMEC’s 24-hour hotline. In overview, this is a case marked less by an abundance of public clues than by the urgent need for them: a young woman disappeared from Granite City, the official record remains sparse, and the hope surrounding the case depends on someone coming forward with information that can help bring clarity to what happened to Chace Horton.
Last Seen: Dec 26, 2025
