Dixon, IL | 1. Honesty, Integrity, and Hard Work

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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It’s 1950 and the neighborly people of Dixon gather in their historic theater to watch a movie starring their hometown hero: Ronald Reagan. But this podcast is not about Ronald Reagan… It’s about the largest municipal fraud in US history. Unlock all episodes of Crooked City: Dixon, IL, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Crooked City show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.2	It's 1950 in Dixon, Illinois, a small city 100 miles west of Chicago.
0:47.7	People are waiting in line at the local theater to buy tickets for a World War II movie called
0:52.6	The Hasty Heart, starring a young, handsome Ronald Reagan.
0:58.0	The people in Dixon love Reagan, or as they call him, Dutch.
1:05.3	Everybody knew Dutch.
1:08.9	I was in grade four years below Reagan, but he was always in all the plays.
1:14.8	I remember seeing a play with him in it.
1:18.7	It was very outgoing, he knew everyone.
1:21.8	Ronald Reagan grew up here, and no doubt some of these theater goers remember him.
1:27.0	In the winter, he played football for Dixon High School.
1:30.4	And in the summer, he was a lifeguard at the town beach on the Rock River.
1:34.7	Ask anyone, and they'll tell you, he saved 77 lives.
1:39.3	There was a diving board, and I guess someone came down and hit me on the back of my head,
1:45.8	and I was knocked out and Ronald came out and rescued me.
1:50.9	And he was, he was very kind.
2:06.4	In the Dixon movie theater, people have taken their seats.
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