The only U.S. president born in Illinois was Ronald Reagan. He was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, and served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
. While other presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Barack Obama have strong ties to Illinois and were residents there, they were not born in the state. Lincoln was born in Kentucky, Obama in Hawaii, and Grant in Ohio
