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Tampico is a village in Whiteside County best known as the birthplace of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States.

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911, in a five-room apartment at 111 South Main Street, a home that had no running water or indoor toilet.

The birthplace apartment, inside the Graham Building built in 1896, is now preserved as the Ronald Reagan Birthplace & Museum, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The entire 100 block of South Main Street forms the Tampico Main Street Historic District, a row of late-19th-century brick commercial buildings rebuilt after fires and a tornado swept the town in the 1870s.

The land under Tampico was originally a slough; the first non-aboriginal settlers arrived in 1852, and the area was drained in 1863-64 to make it farmable.

In June 1874, a tornado struck Tampico and destroyed 27 buildings, just a year before the village incorporated.

The village of Tampico was incorporated in 1875, four years after the railroad first reached the area in 1871.

Tampico's population was 689 at the 2020 census.

At the 2000 census, Tampico had 772 people living in 292 households.

Next door to the birthplace, the Tampico Area Historical Museum displays Reagan memorabilia and railroad artifacts and maintains a genealogical research center with thousands of pages of local records.