Most people know about the Great Chicago Fire, but there’s a lot more to Illinois history than that. Native American settlements thousands of years old, the battle over slavery, the transfer of ...

On this day in history, Feb. 6, 1911, Ronald Reagan — America's 40th president — was born in Illinois. He attended Eureka College and became a Hollywood actor before his White House days.

DIXON, Illinois—In the gift shop of the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home is a T-shirt bearing one of the 40th president’s best-known sayings: “Government is not the solution to our problem.

A 1927 photo of Ronald Reagan as a lifeguard at Lowell Park in Dixon, Illinois. Bausman, though, feels that tourism trends are changing. People flock to the region for its natural resources and ...

President Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, IL and also lived in Dixon, IL. Reagan was the only U.S. president born in Illinois. He served as president from 1981-1989. He died at age 93 after a ...

TAMPICO, Ill. (WBBM/CBS) --A celebration will be held in northwest Illinois early next month, marking the 100th birthday President Ronald Reagan. As WBBM Newsradio 780's Bernie Tafoya reports ...

When Ronald Reagan was afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, his memories of his long and eventful life gradually, inexorably dissolved. The last ones to survive in his mind and his conversations ...

President Ronald Reagan attends the Illinois State Fair in Springfield in 1986 with Gov. James Thompson. Reagan is holding a 4-day-old goat belonging to Carry Marshall, 16, of Decatur.

There is an old story that when teenage Ronald Reagan was working as a lifeguard at a swimming area outside of Dixon, he saved lives so frequently that he begin carving notches into a log to keep ...

An Illinois police chief is retiring 39 years after he stopped an assassin’s bullet intended for former President Ronald Reagan with his chest. Tim McCarthy was part of Reagan’s Secret Service ...

From the Ronald Reagan Library in California to his birthplace, Tampico, Illinois, the celebration of the centennial of the 40th president's birth is underway. Reagan would have been 100 today ...

One hundred and twelve years ago Monday, on February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. He is remembered and celebrated all these years later – not because he is gone ...