Browse Items (2 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: U.S. National Balloon Championships Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Nationals Balloon staging area U.S. National Balloon Championships, Rantoul, IL, August, 11, 1998. Tags: 1998, 20th century, Exhibit, U.S. National Balloon Championships Nationals Welcome Sign Rantoul businesses putting out the welcome mat for the U.S. National Balloon Championships participants and spectators. In 1998, the event brought 90,000 people to the Champaign County village. Tags: 1998, 20th century, Exhibit, U.S. National Balloon Championships Output Formats atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2