UPDATE: Missing 79-year-old found safe

PALATINE, Ill. (WEAU) - UPDATE: According to the Palatine Police Department, Harold Harkavy has been found safe and is no longer considered missing.

A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for a 79-year-old man with a cognitive impairment who was last seen traveling in Wisconsin Friday morning.

The Palatine Police Department and the Wisconsin Department of Justice say Harold Harkavy was last seen at about 3 a.m. Friday, Oct. 23, leaving his home on East Fawn Road in Palatine, Illinois, for work in Wheeling, Illinois.

Police say Harkavy was later spotted at about 8 a.m. traveling eastbound on Interstate 94 at Jefferson County Road in Wisconsin.

Harkavy is described as a white man, 5 feet 8 inches tall and 148 pounds, with hazel eyes and black, balding hair with gray stubble. He wears a hearing aid in his right ear. What he was last wearing is unknown.

He was traveling in a gray Nissan Versa with Illinois plates.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Palatine Police Department at 847-359-9000. In an emergency, call 911.

The alert was broadcast statewide at 10:41 p.m. Friday.