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Fort Sheridan, Highwood, Illinois (closed 1993) Fort Arlington, Arlington Heights, Illinois. Green River Ordnance Plant. Haley Army Airfield. Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Joliet, Illinois. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois. Savanna Army Depot, Savanna, Illinois (Closed circa 2000)
Scott Air Force Base (IATA: BLV, ICAO: KBLV, FAA LID: BLV) is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon, 17 miles (27 km) east-southeast of downtown St. Louis. Scott Field was one of 32 Air Service training camps established after the United States entered World War I in April 1917. [2]
Savanna Army Depot was a 13,062-acre (52.86 km 2) installation, located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, in Carroll and Jo Daviess counties, around seven miles (11 km) north of Savanna, Illinois. It was opened in 1917 as a proving and testing facility for weapons developed at Rock Island Arsenal. In 1921 it became a weapons depot.
Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek – located 20 kilometers (13 miles) northwest of Virginia Beach. Joint Base Lewis-McChord – located 17 kilometers (11 miles) southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling – located 11 kilometers (7 miles) south of Washington, D.C. Joint Base Andrews – located 22 kilometers (14 miles ...
Added to NRHP. July 14, 2006. 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.
Charles M. Price Support Center was a United States Army base located in Granite City, Illinois, across the Mississippi River directly to the east of St. Louis.. Originally selected as a site for a U.S. Army supply depot during World War I, it was not established until World War II as the Granite City Engineer Depot.
60037. Area code. 847. Fort Sheridan is a residential neighborhood within the cities of Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park [1] in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It was originally established as Fort Sheridan, an Army post named after Civil War cavalry general Philip Sheridan, [2] to honor his services to Chicago.
Fort Leavenworth (/ ˈlɛvənˌwɜːrθ /) is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth. [1] Built in 1827, it is the second oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C., and the oldest permanent settlement in Kansas. [2] Fort Leavenworth has been historically known as ...