''AdVantage News'' is a daily (online) and weekly (print) hyper-local American newspaper, published in
Alton, Illinois, and serving the
Metro East 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 Pennysave ...
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 Alton Steel is a steel manufacturer, based in Alton, Illinois, United States. The company is a reincarnation of the Laclede Steel Company, which halted operations of its mill in 1998. The company entered bankruptcy in 2001, but emerged in 2003 wit ...
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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Newspapers published in Illinois
Alton, Illinois