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ID: 2029797
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2029797
Record Type:
administrative
Rantoul (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 088 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -88.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Established as an agricultural community with extension of Illinois Central Railroad; later grew as a commercial center for Chanute Air Force Base, which closed in 1993.
Names:
Rantoul
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named after Robert Rantoul, a director of the Illinois Central Railroad
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Illinois
(state) (
P
)
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Champaign
(county) (
P
)
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Rantoul
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in 1854
village (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Rantoul..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 03/21/99
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS17015584
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 03/21/99
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS17015584
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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