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 ...

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.

President Ronald Reagan, who survived an assassin's bullet, supported restricting access to assault weapons. In 1983, Reagan told the NRA "We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect ...

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 ...

Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. Barack Obama started his political career as a community organizer in Chicago, before becoming a state senator, then U.S. senator.

President Ronald Reagan spoke these words on June 12, ... As a boy growing up in Dixon, Illinois, Reagan was baptized by the pastor at the church where his mother taught Sunday school.