daily newspaper
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published Monday through Friday mornings, and Saturday mornings, in
Canton, Illinois
Canton is the largest city in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14,704 at the 2010 census, down from 15,288 as of the 2000 census. The Canton Micropolitan Statistical Area covers all of Fulton County; it is in turn, p ...
. It is owned by
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Greater Washington DC, Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.shopper publication, ''The Fulton County Shopper''. Both the shopper and the daily circulate throughout
Fulton County, Illinois
Fulton County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 37,069. Its county seat is Lewistown, and the largest city is Canton. Fulton County comprises the Canton, IL Micropolitan Statisti ...
.
The ''Ledger'' name dates to 1850, when ''The Illinois Public Ledger'', a
weekly newspaper
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, was founded in
Lewistown, Illinois
Lewistown is a city in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. It was named by its founder, Ossian M. Ross, after his oldest son, Lewis W. Ross. The population was 2,384 at the 2010 census, down from 2,522 at the 2000 census. It is the county s ...
, the Fulton County seat; it moved to Canton in 1854, under the name ''Fulton Ledger''. It adopted a daily publication schedule, as the ''Canton Daily Ledger'', October 3, 1912, and absorbed the ''Canton Daily Register'' in 1926; the combined paper was known as the ''Canton Daily Ledger and Daily Register'' until 1961.
In 1987, the paper was acquired by Hollinger. Former owner GateHouse Media purchased roughly 160 daily and weekly newspapers from Hollinger in 1997.Hollinger Will Sell Bunch Of Its Papers /ref>
Illinois Newspaper Project
The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) began as part of the United States Newspaper Program The United States Newspaper Program (USNP) is a national effort among the individual states and the US federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on ...