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Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois (closed in 1993) Hanna City Air Force Station , Hanna City, Illinois (closed in 1968; now site of an FAA Long Range Radar ) Scott Air Force Base , Shiloh, Illinois
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Illinois (5 P) Pages in category "Military installations in Illinois" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Pages in category "Installations of the United States Air Force in Illinois" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The number of active duty Air Force Bases within the United States rose from 115 in 1947 to peak at 162 in 1956 before declining to 69 in 2003 and 59 in 2020. This change reflects a Cold War expansion, retirement of much of the strategic bomber force, and the post–Cold War draw-down.
The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments". [4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union.
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.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Neoga, IL (P-70F) ... Chicago Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1961;
Scott Field Historic District began as a World War I era air base built in 1917 near O'Fallon, Illinois, and was expanded and rebuilt before World War II. [2] The district contains primarily that portion of the base built prior to 1941, and is now contained within the renamed, expanded, and operational Scott Air Force Base.