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Rantoul owes its life to trains. The Illinois Central Railroad laid the town out in 1854, naming it after one of its bigwigs. Then the U.S. Army chose the town for the site of Chanute Field because it was near the railroad. After World War II, the field became Chanute Air Force Base, which eventually closed in 1993.
All those airplanes form one of the perks of living in this village, because they produced a flight museum and a public-use airport



