Rondout, Illinois
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Rondout, Illinois is an unincorporated village along Illinois State Highway 176 (Rockland Road) between I-294 and US 41 in Lake County, Illinois. Rondout shares a border with Knollwood, Illinois, another unincorporated section of Lake County. There is one school in Rondout, the Rondout School. For High School, Rondout residents attend Libertyville High School in Libertyville, IL. The village shares a postal code with Libertyville. In the past, the now-defunct North Shore Railroad ran through Rondout, although the tracks have been paved over with a bike path. Metra's Milwaukee North Line runs through Rondout, as well as the Canadian Pacific railroad, and the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad. Amtrak and the Wisconsin and Southern Railroad run on the Metra and Canadian Pacific lines as well, making Rondout a popular site for railfans. Previously, when the Milwaukee Road commuter rail service ran through Rondout, there was a railroad station in the village, although now only the platform remains. Rondout is probably best known for an incident in 1924, when a gang of robbers known as The Newton Boys robbed a mail train in the village. The event is chronicled in the Richard Linklater film, The Newton Boys. Currently, there is a historical marker to commemorate the event, located near the railroad tracks where it took place.
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