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List of United States military bases in Illinois is a listing of current and former United States military bases located in the US State of Illinois. Air Force
Naval Station Great Lakes is the largest military installation in Illinois and the largest training station in the Navy. The base has 1,153 buildings situated on 1,628 acres (6.59 km 2 ) and has 69 mi (111 km) of roadway to provide access to the base's facilities.
Cantonment Wilkinson served as a short-term U.S. Army camp established on New Year's day 1801. It was occupied for 18 months from 1801-1802 by over 1,000 soldiers and their dependents. At its peak, Cantonment Wilkinson was one of the largest military bases in the country housing over 1,500 soldiers before it was abandoned in 1802. [1]
With more than 40,000 artifacts and records, the collections of the National Museum of the American Sailor hold an irreplaceable record of the U.S. Navy. Featuring naval uniforms and accessories from the early 1900s to the present, and the country's largest archive of boot camp-related photographs, the collection tells the story of the American Sailor in the United States Navy.
In January 2024, the US Navy requested a new permit for the installation and maintenance of mine training areas off the coasts of Hawaii and Southern California, as the Pacific Ocean, according to the command, is a priority theater of operations amid tensions with China.
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [ 3 ]
Naval Brig, Pearl Harbor, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Navy Brig, Puget Sound, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington; Pre-Trial Confinement Facilities/PCF Pre-Trial Confinement Facility, Naval Station Great Lakes, North Chicago, Illinois; Pre-Trial Confinement Facility, Submarine Base New London, Connecticut
Union soldiers, Confederate prisoners of war Rock Island in the pre- arsenal years, following the Black Hawk War of 1832, with a view of the U.S. Army post Fort Armstrong , circa 1839 Perspective drawing of the prison for Confederate soldiers at Rock Island, 1864