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Rantoul and Chanute Air Force Base
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Arcadia Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 7W7EW9L
EAN: 9780738583082
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Zustellung: Do, 02.07.2026
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Beschreibung
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 namesake, Robert Rantoul Jr. Disaster followed in 1899 and again in 1901 with devastating fires. Then, in 1917, a U. S. Army flying field was built on the outskirts of Rantoul. Named after the aviation pioneer Octave Chanute, Chanute Field, later Chanute Air Force Base, became a premier technical training facility. A mutually beneficial relationship quickly developed between these civilian and military establishments that would last for over 75 years. Chanute Air Force Base closed in 1993, ushering in yet another new era for the village of Rantoul.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Mark D Hanson
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 128