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About Dixon, IL

Dixon sits along the Rock River in northwestern Illinois, about 100 miles from Chicago via Interstate 88. This Lee County seat of 15,000 connects to the Quad Cities via US Route 52 and links to nearby Sterling through Route 26. The town features typical Midwest prairie landscape with the scenic Rock River cutting through farmland. Ronald Reagan's restored boyhood home on Hennepin Avenue draws visitors to see where the future president spent his formative years.

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Dixon, IL is in United States, at 41.844, -89.479 - about 23 km north-east of Rock Falls, IL.

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The closest airport to Dixon, IL is Chicago Rockford International Airport, 74 km (about 1 h 4 min by car).

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