''The Daily Ledger'' is an American

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports ...

published Monday through Friday mornings, and Saturday mornings, in Canton, Illinois. It is owned by Gannett. The ''Ledger'' also publishes a free 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 Statistic ...

. The ''Ledger'' name dates to 1850, when ''The Illinois Public Ledger'', a

weekly newspaper A weekly newspaper is a general-news or current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspaper is published once every two weeks. Weekly n ...

, 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
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Illinois Newspaper Project The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) began as part of the United States Newspaper Program (USNP), a cooperative effort between the states and the federal government designed to catalog and preserve on microfilm the nation's historic newspaper heri ...

Gannett publications Newspapers published in Illinois Fulton County, Illinois Publications established in 1850 {{illinois-newspaper-stub