History
Rock Island Argus was founded in 1853 and the Moline Dispatch was founded in 1878. Now a single daily print paper with a wide-ranging website and dozens of other products, the Moline Dispatch Publishing Company is owned by Small Newspaper Group (est. 1903 by Lennington Small), headquartered in Kankakee, Illinois.
Specialties
The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus: Your link to local in the Illinois Quad Cities. Dispatch*Argus*QCOnline is the boutique local media player serving Henry, Mercer, Rock Island and Whiteside counties in Illinois, and Scott County in Iowa, with News, Sports, Obituaries, Politics, Food, Arts & Entertainment, Calendar of Events, Classifieds, and a Business Directory.