By Dee Longfellow
For The Elmhurst Independent
According to a report from the York Township Assessor’s Office obtained by the Chicago Tribune, missing United Airlines executive and Elmhurst resident Jake Cefolia sold his home in Elmhurst in November after having listed it in June.
This is the same Jake Cefolia who went missing as of Aug. 7 and has neither been seen nor heard from since.
According to reports, Cefolia purchased his home at 454 S. Rex Blvd. for $560,000 in 2016. He listed it in June of 2020—just four years later—for $589,000. Eventually, the four-bedroom, two-bath house sold for $523,000.
Since last August, the Independent has brought its readers the news of Cefolia, a senior vice president for Worldwide Sales for United Airlines, who had last been missing since Saturday, Aug. 8. Illinois law enforcement, local police, K-9 units and more than 100 volunteers came out to search for Cefolia near the Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve in Lemont, where his vehicle had been found.
Friends told Forest Preserve District authorities that he often went for a run in that particular location, which has a loop that is about 10 miles long.
Despite several searches and pleas on social media, the trail to find Cefolia has ebbed and flowed. At one time, a surveillance camera appeared to have caught his car at an Elmhurst gas station, but that discovery led to nothing.
No other news has been forthcoming about Cefolia, and he remains a missing person.
Anyone with information about Cefolia is asked to call the Elmhurst Police Department at 630-530-3050.
