My favorite interview last week was 90-year-old Illinois farmboy John “Jack” Block. Block was former President Ronald ...

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.

We won Illinois, Ronald Reagan won the White House and the face of the world changed under his presidency. This year is the 100th birthday of the only American president to have been born in ...

There is an old story that when teenage Ronald Reagan was working as a lifeguard at a ... Americans came in droves to his birthplace and boyhood home in Illinois, to his presidential ...

President Ronald Reagan lived as a boy in this simple white-framed home on Hennepin Avenue in Dixon, Illinois, from 1920-1924. It is now a museum. (Getty Images) ...

In this 1980 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, wave to the crowds during the Illinois State University homecoming parade in Normal.

A prestigious scholarship board honoring Ronald Reagan believes recent Cedar Falls High School graduate Alex Goetsch is the ...

Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, on 6 February 1911 and died in Los Angeles in 2004. He was first an actor in Hollywood (with moderate success) and then entered politics, becoming ...

Ronald Reagan was born on this day in 1911. ... Illinois. After attending Eureka College, he went on to work as a sports broadcaster before landing a contract that jumpstarted his acting career.

Reagan’s biopic, which is set to release in theaters on Aug. 30, follows the former president as a young boy in Dixon, Illinois, before Quaid takes center stage as 35-year-old Hollywood actor ...