Small Newspaper Group

Welcome to the website of the Small Newspaper Group, a privately owned firm principally engaged in newspaper publishing in the midwest. The story of the Small Newspaper Group starts in 1903, when Lennington Small became a principal stockholder in the Kankakee Republican Company. A State Senator in 1902, Len had a background in farming and banking. Other civic leaders of the day joined him in buying one of Kankakee's local papers and changing its name to the Republican.