Lake County was site of largest U.S. train robbery a century ago; ‘Unique for a number of reasons’

One hundred years ago, a small, unincorporated Lake County community was propelled into the national headlines after it was the site of the largest train robbery in the U.S.

The community of Rondout, first formed around a railroad junction for the Milwaukee Road route – later the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1986. The railroad junction, the reason for the locality’s existence, became a notorious focal point of Lake County in 1924.

Late in the evening of June 12, 1924 – also the day former president George H.W. Bush was born ...