Commercial-News

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Commercial-News
Commercial News building, Danville, Illinois.jpg
Commercial News building
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) CNHI
PublisherAmy Winter
EditorAmy Graham-McCarty
Founded1866(158 years ago) (1866)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters2 E. Main St., Unit 28., Danville, Illinois 61832 USA
Circulation 285 [1]
Website www.commercial-news.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Commercial-News is a community newspaper that serves Danville, Illinois and surrounding communities. It is owned by CNHI, who acquired it from Gannett in 1998. [2] It maintains a presence as a three-day print, and also an online publication.

It was founded, as the Danville Commercial, in 1866. [3] In 1903 it merged with the rival Danville Express, itself founded in 1873, to become the Danville Commercial-News, later shortened to its current name. [3]

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References

  1. Audit Bureau of Circulation, Circulation averages for the six months ending January, 202021
  2. Gannett sells five daily newspapers to Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. Archived January 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 "About Us". Commercial-News. Retrieved August 2, 2023.