''AdVantage News'' is a daily (online) and weekly (print) hyper-local American newspaper, published in

Alton, Illinois Alton ( ) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about north of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 25,676 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is a part of the River Bend (Illinois), Riv ...

, and serving the

Metro East The Metro East is an urban area in Southern Illinois, United States that contains the eastern and northern urban, suburban, and exurban areas on the Mississippi River in Greater St. Louis. It encompasses eight Illinois counties and constitutes ...

region of Illinois. Established as a

pennysaver A pennysaver (or free ads paper, Friday ad or shopper) is a free community periodical available in North America (typically weekly or monthly publications) that advertises items for sale. Frequently pennysavers are actually called ''The Pennysav ...

in 1986, the publication transitioned into a newspaper in February 2014. In 1986, Jim Seibold and Sharon McRoy formed ''Today's AdVantage'', a pennysaver that was mailed to 42,000 households in the Riverbend area. In 2013, Alton-based lawyer and owner of Alton Steel John Simmons purchased ''Today's AdVantage'' from Seibold and McRoy with the intention of turning it into a newspaper. On Feb. 1, 2014, ''Today's AdVantage'' became ''AdVantage News''.

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