Rondout, Illinois
| Rondout | |
| Sulphur Glen | |
| Unincorporated community | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | Illinois |
| County | Lake |
| Coordinates | 42°16′48″N 87°53′43″W / 42.28000°N 87.89528°WCoordinates: 42°16′48″N 87°53′43″W / 42.28000°N 87.89528°W |
| Timezone | CST (UTC−6) |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC−5) |
| Postal code | 60044, 60045, 60048 |
| Area code | 847, 224 |
   Location of Rondout within Illinois
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Rondout is an unincorporated community in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The area is located within Libertyville Township. As Rondout is an unincorporated community rather than a municipality, it lacks clearly defined borders, and shares postal codes with Lake Bluff, Lake Forest and Libertyville, Illinois. It has its own elementary school which comes under Rondout School District 72.
Between 1870 and 1872, the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (Later the Milwaukee Road) completed a railroad line between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1880, a branch line was built to Libertyville, Illinois, and the junction was known as Libertyville Junction. Residents, however, referred to the community around the junction as Sulfur Glen, due to the high amounts of sulphur in the water nearby. In 1888, the community was renamed Rondout, after Rondout, New York. One account has the community renaming itself in an (unsuccessful attempt) to attract a business from the aforementioned town in New York. Another has a Sulfur Glen resident asking the railroad to rename the community after his former hometown. In 1889, the Waukegan and Southwestern Railway built a line that intersected the Milwaukee & St. Paul, shortly before being acquired by the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. This necessitated the construction of an interlocking tower southeast of the junction.
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