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Area code 815 was overlaid with area code 779 in 2007. 847/224: North and northwest suburbs of Chicago including all of Lake County, part of McHenry County, northern Cook County, and northeastern Kane County. This area includes Evanston, Des Plaines, Waukegan, and most of Elgin. Area code 847 was overlaid with area code 224 in 2002.
Area code 847 was created on January 20, 1996, in a three-way split of area code 708. Area code 847 was involved in the first trial of telephone number pooling in the United States in June 1998, to avert central office code exhaustion in the numbering plan area. [1] Nevertheless, within only five years, 847 was already close to exhaustion from ...
On October 7, 2007, area code 331 began overlaying area code 630, making ten-digit dialing mandatory in the area. The Illinois side of the Chicago area– 312 / 773 / 872 , 708, 847/224, 630/331 and portions of 815/779 –is one of the largest local calling areas in the United States; with few exceptions, no long-distance charges are applied ...
Area codes 847 and 224; Area code 872 This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:16 (UTC). Text ... Category: Area codes in Illinois.
460 reserved as a fourth area code for the region. 250: British Columbia (Victoria, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Kelowna, all areas except for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley; and the isolated border town of Hyder, Alaska, US) October 19, 1996: split of 604; 2008: overlaid by 778 (see 604) 2013: overlaid by 236; 2019: overlaid by 672; 251
When the original North American area codes were introduced for a nationwide telephone numbering plan in 1947, the entire state was a single numbering plan area (NPA) with area code 305. In 1953, area code 813 was introduced for the western coast of Florida, and 904 was assigned for northern Florida in 1965. In 1988, area code 407 was ...
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Area code 708 was Illinois' first new area code since 309 had been created in 1957, and the second new code for the state since the announcement of the original North American area codes in 1947, when the state was divided into four numbering plan areas (217, 312, 618, and 815). The Illinois side of the Chicago area–312/773/872, 708/464, 847 ...