| The Daily Ledger | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Foundation: | , as The Illinois Public Ledger[1] |
| Owners: | Gannett |
| Publisher: | David Adams |
| Editor: | Alyse Thompson |
| Headquarters: | 53 West Elm Street, Canton, Illinois 61520, United States |
| Oclc: | 28365215 |
| Website: | cantondailyledger.com |
The Daily Ledger is an American daily newspaper 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.
The Ledger name dates to 1850, when The Illinois Public Ledger, a weekly newspaper, was founded in Lewistown, Illinois, the Fulton County seat; it moved to Canton in 1854, under the name Fulton Ledger.[1] 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.[2]
In 1987, the paper was acquired by Hollinger.[3] Former owner GateHouse Media purchased roughly 160 daily and weekly newspapers from Hollinger in 1997.[4]