Glory days have passed for Rantoul's Chanute base
By Paul Wood
Friday July 28, 2006
Robert K. O'Daniell
Termite-damaged wood lies in the foreground after the roof collapsed on an operations building at the former Chanute Air Force base in Rantoul.
RANTOUL – A marmalade cat sprints through the rubble of an old Air Force operations building that fell from its own weight after termite infestation.
"That's our rodent control system," explains Rantoul village Administrator David Johnston.
The building's filled with asbestos and lead-based paint. A few hundred yards away is an even larger building– White Hall – that's also full of asbestos and lead-based paint. White Hall is better known as Buckingham Palace to hundreds of thousands of airmen who passed through it from 1939 until Chanute Air Force Base's closure in 1993.
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