Chicago Reserve Squadron?

[RiverAux]

On the Final salute page on CAP News Online they mentioned the death of a person in the "Chicago Reserve Squadron" in Illinois Wing.  Thinking that this was an odd name for a squadron I went to the IL Wing web site and they do have such a squadron with the charter number of IL-235.  Is this actually the Wing's "ghost" squadron or something else? 

I ask because ghost squadrons usually have a charter number like IL-000 and are usualy called something like the "Illinois Wing Headquarters Squadron" and there actually is such an organization with that charter number. 

[PHall]

It's a squadron that meets at the Air Force Reserve facility at O'Hare IAP.

[RiverAux]

How come it isn't assigned to a group?  The wing web page had it as a separate unit.  Is it a legislative squadron perhaps?

[PHall]

We must be thinking of two different units.

[capcadet101]

some squadrons can be apart of the region and not the wing in Missouri we used to have a squadron like that.

[Eclipse]

It's a squadron that meets at the Air Force Reserve facility at O'Hare IAP.

No, its not.

Its a Squadron within ILWG for members who wish to remain in CAP, but for whatever reason do not want to be attached to a unit, or are basically inactive.

As an FYI, there has not been a military presence at O'Hare for about 10 years, and no CAP Squadron for almost as long.  They were failing for a while, and after 911 were forced to meet off the airport, and it was
not long after that they faded away and the charter was retired.

[RiverAux]

But Illinois has a traditional ghost unit, the IL-000 Headquarters Squadron?  So why have another one?  What do they use the 000 unit for then?  Just curious.