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Rantoul, IL - History
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Welcome to the Rantoul Home page. The Rantoul Home page provides as much information as possible on Rantoul. Knowing Rantoul’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Rantoul’s Home page, you will also find Rantoul’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Rantoul has a population of 12946. 47.4% of Rantoul’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.6 are female. 37.8% of Rantoul is married and 49.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $88,322, and the average rent is $788. Household median income in Rantoul is $41,837, and the individual median income is $27,823. Rantoul’s Ethnic is the following: White(66.4%), Black(21.2%), Hispanic(11.4%), Multiple(8.8%), Asian(2.2%), Other(1.2%), Native(0.2%).
The community was named after Robert Rantoul, Jr., a U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and a director of the Illinois Central Railroad.Rantoul was laid out in 1854 for the Illinois Central Railroad by John Penfield. A post office was established in 1856 as Rantoul Station; the name was changed to Rantoul in May 1862.In 1917, Rantoul was chosen by the United States Army to be the site of Chanute Field, due to its proximity to the Illinois Central railroad and the War Department's ground school at the University of Illinois.
In the 1930s, Chanute Field grew, dominating the local economy as thousands of airmen were stationed there to train recruits. Renamed Chanute Air Force Base after World War II, it was closed in 1993, but was partly reoccupied by the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, which was permanently closed on December 30, 2015, and the Rantoul National Aviation Center.
Rantoul's economy has taken a sharp decline due to the base's closing, from which it has never recovered. The book Eye of the Storm: Chanute Closes by Katy B. Podagrosi tells the story of this period. There is an outdoor sports complex coming in 2021.
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