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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Illinois Republican Party will be launching a special year-long celebration of Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday in 2011. It all begins Saturday, February 5th at a celebration dinner in Chicago ...