SAN ANTONIO — Fifty years after a young man from San Antonio vanished from Chicago, his family is renewing their search for answers — and they believe someone in the Alamo City may still hold a missing piece of the story.

Roger Aguirre was 22 years old when he disappeared on November 20, 1975. He was last seen standing outside his apartment building on Chicago’s Northwest Side — an area known at the time to be frequented by LGBTQ residents. No one has seen or heard from him since.

Aguirre spent his childhood in San Antonio, growing up on the West Side and attending Lanier High School before moving to Chicago with his family at age 16.

His half-sister, Heather Aguirre Poff, said she grew up knowing of Roger but never had the chance to meet him.

“I was born in Chicago in 1974 and my brot

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