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in Kankakee,

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, which includes the adjacent municipalities of

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. The newspaper also circulates in portions of the adjacent counties of

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. The newspaper circulates five days a week, on the four afternoons of Monday through Thursday and a fifth daily edition on Saturday morning. No papers are published on Friday or on Sunday. The newspaper was founded in 1903.

References

External links

''Daily Journal'' website
(August 29, 2002, updated October 14, 2013), ''Daily Journal''.

(May 18, 2019), by Lee Provost, ''Daily Journal''. Kankakee, Illinois Newspapers published in Illinois 1903 establishments in Illinois Publications established in 1903 {{Illinois-newspaper-stub