RANTOUL, Ill. (WCIA) — More than 20 firefighting units were called to the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul after a fire started in one of the abandoned buildings. The 3-alarm call went out at ...

Prior to 1941, African Americans were not allowed to serve in the Army Air Corps. But with some pressure by The Pittsburgh Courier newspaper, and by groups such as the National Association for the ...

Smoke billows from windows of an abandoned building on Arends Boulevard in Rantoul on Tuesday. Crews from numerous departments battle a fire on the grounds of the former Chanute Air Force Base Tuesday ...

RANTOUL, Ill. (WAND) – Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul closed in 1993. Thirty-two years later, the Air Force is trying to determine where so-called forever chemicals, PFAs, are located and how to ...

A stack of furniture is piled high in a heap beside one of the former Chanute Air Force Base dorms on West Flessner Avenue in Rantoul, which will be demolished as part of a $5 million contract. ABOVE: ...