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Chanute Air Force Base Chanute Field
Located in Rantoul, Illinois
Chanute Field, Illinois, 12 November 1939. Note the lack of concrete runways.
Coordinates
40°17′40″N88°08′35″W / 40.29444°N 88.14306°W / 40.29444; -88.14306 (Chanute Air Force Base)
Type
Air Force base
Site information
Controlled by
United States Air Force Air Training Command
Site history
Built
1917
In use
1917–1993
Battles/wars
World War I World War II
Garrison information
Garrison
3345th Air Base Group (1948–1993)
Chanute Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles (210 km) south of Chicago. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air Force technical training. Chanute Field was established on 21 May 1917, being one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I.[1][2]
The base was closed in 1993 and is currently being redeveloped for civilian uses.
^William R. Evinger: Directory of Military Bases in the U.S., Oryx Press, Phoenix, Ariz., 1991, p. 147.
^World War I Group, Historical Division, Special Staff, United States Army, Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War (1917–1919)
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