Rantoul (Illinois)

Champaign County

17-62783

Rantoul is a village with 13,674 inhabitants ( 2010) in Illinois. The city is located 23 km north-east of Champaign, 74 km south-east of Bloomington, 129 km south-east of Peoria, 176 km south of Chicago, and 179 km north-west of Indianapolis and is part of the Champaign County.

The town takes its name after Robert Rantoul, the former director of the Illinois Central Railroad.

Geography

Rantouls geographical coordinates loud 40 ° 18 ' N, 88 ° 9' W40.304722222222 - 88.151944444444 ( 40.304600, -88.152070 ). Interstate 57 leads west past the city in a north-south direction at Rantoul. U.S. Highway 45 runs parallel through the center and crosses there leading in the east-west U.S. Highway 136

According to the United States Census Bureau Rantoul has a total area of 19.0 km ² ), of which 18.8 km ² on land and 0.3 km ² ( = 1.50% ) is attributable to water.

Demography

At the time of the census of 2000, there were 12918 people Rantoul. The population density was 685.7 people per km ². There were 6161 housing units at an average 328.6 per km ². The population consisted of Rantouls 76.69 % White, 16.88 % African American, 0.47% Native American, 1.75% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.89 % reported other races to belong and 3.27 % from two or more races. 2.69 % of the population to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Residents Rantouls distributed to 5330 households out of which 33.7 % were living in children under 18 years. 43.9 % married couples living together, 15.0 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8 % were non-families. 30.8% of households were made ​​up of individuals and someone lived in 10.2% of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size is 3.02.

The population was spread out with 28.6 % under the, 9.5 % 18 -24- year-old, 32.2 % 25 -44- year-old, 18.2% 45-64 year olds and 11.4 % under the age of 65 years or more. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 91.0 males. In the over -18s accounted for 100 women 86.7 males.

The median household income in Rantoul was 36 904 U.S. dollars, and the median family income reached the level of 43 543 U.S. dollars. The average income of men was 32,440 U.S. dollars, compared to 22,382 U.S. dollars for women. The per capita income amounted to 17,948 U.S. dollars. 10.7 % of the population and 9.5 % of families had affected an income below the poverty line, including 14.7 % of minors and 4.6 % of those age 65 or over.

Railway

Amtrak, the national passenger rail transport system in the United States, connecting Rantoulmit by the long-distance trains Saluki and Illini southward daily with Champaign - Urbana, Mattoon, Effingham, Centralia, Du Quoin, and Carbondale. In the opposite direction, the two trains on Gilman, Kankakee, Homewood to Chicago.

Traffic

1917 Rantoul was chosen because of its proximity to the railroad as the site of a military airfield with Air Force School, which continued to grow in the 1930s, with several thousand soldiers stationed dominated the city's economy. After the Second World War, the Air Force base was renamed Chanute Air Force Base. This was closed in 1993. Since then she is partly used by the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum and the Rantoul National Aviation Center.

National Register of Historic Places

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