The Sauk Valley Newspapers reported that Palin signed autographs, praised volunteers for their restoration efforts and was “Dressed in a tan skirt and white button-up shirt with a red, white and blue pin in the shape of a cross.”
I live down the street, and the neighbor told me that Sarah Palin's bus just pulled up, and we're Republicans and I thought we would just come on down and say hello," Dixon resident Anne Brousil told the Sauk Valley newspaper. Palin's team reportedly contacted members of the Dixon Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission prior to the visit, but volunteers kept quiet.
Palin toured the northern Illinois home with her husband, Todd as well as her 10-year-old daughter, Piper, and niece, McKinley.
"This is one of those places everyone in America should come to get a sense of Ronald Reagan's foundation -- to understand his humbleness and graciousness,” Palin said in Dixon, according to NBC News.
On Sunday, the Palin bus tour headed south and stopped in Springfield, Illinois to visit the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. The State Journal-Register reports:
According to Dave Blanchette, spokesman for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Palin arrived at the museum when it opened at 9 a.m. She toured the facility for about an hour and half, shaking hands and taking photos with visitors, he said.
She did not visit any other Lincoln sites and asked that the visit be kept private, Blanchette said.
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