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Rantoul and Chanute Air Force Base

By Mark D. Hanson
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By Mark D. Hanson
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Join Mark D. Hanson as he chronicles the long—standing and cohesive relationship between the farming town of Rantoul and the Chanute Air Force base.

Rantoul and the former Chanute Air Force Base are inseparably intertwined as primary players in a single historical narrative. Rantoul was first founded as an agriculturally based community in 1848 near an area known as Mink Grove. The settlement boomed with the coming of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1854; a railroad championed by the town's...

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