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.

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 governor ...

Illinois politicians are reacting Saturday after Donald Trump was rushed off the stage at rally in Pennsylvania. ... That's when President Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington D.C.

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.

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 ...

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 ...