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

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 ...

TAMPICO, Ill. (CBS/WBBM) --This coming Sunday would be Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, and Illinoisans are celebrating the only president so far who was born in the state. As WBBM Newsradio 780's ...

An Illinois police chief is retiring 39 years after he stopped an assassin’s bullet intended for former President Ronald Reagan with his chest.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.