RANTOUL, Ill. (WCIA) — Rantoul will have its first new mayor in more than a decade. Sam Hall defeated incumbent Charles Smith. Hall will be the first Black mayor in Rantoul’s history. He’s lived in ...

RANTOUL, Ill. (WAND) - A Champaign man was arrested Wednesday on charges of armed robbery at a Rantoul grocery store. The Rantoul Police Department said that it received a call of an armed robbery on ...

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RANTOUL, Ill. (WAND)- Rantoul has been using Advanced Medical Transport of Eastern Illinois as a way to provide ambulance services for quite some time. "Rantoul has actually had an ambulance in town ...

The Indian Hills subdivision in northwest Rantoul is believed to be near the location of Mink Grove, home of Archa Campbell, the area’s first White settler. An 1863 map of Champaign County shows Mink ...

Two local fire departments in Paxton, Illinois, helped monitor a controlled burn for the movie Chili Finger, which has now ...

CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — Illinois State Police Troop 7 units handled a two-vehicle crash with personal injuries in Champaign County Wednesday evening. State Police responded to U.S. Route 45 ...

RANTOUL, Ill. (WCIA) — Week 3 of the high school football season brought a historic win for the Rantoul Eagles. The Eagles won their first game since 2018 in a 21-15 win over Pontiac. “I talked to the ...

RANTOUL, Ill. (WCIA) — An eight-year-old boy was airlifted to Carle Hospital with “serious injuries” after being stabbed during a domestic incident between the child’s mother and her boyfriend.

Rantoul es un poblado con un orgulloso pasado militar. y una serie de banderines rectangulares rojo, blanco y azul en los postes de teléfono a lo largo de la Ruta 136. Hay un tributo al soldado Jesse ...

The wake for Chanute Air Force Base has been going on for four years here, ever since word came from Washington that it was tagged for closure. But the funeral Thursday was brief. As several hundred ...