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  2. List of Illinois area codes - Wikipedia

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    Area code 847 exhausted its numbers quickly, so that an overlay area code, 224, was implemented in 1996 for relief. However, mandatory ten-digit dialing was not in effect until 2002. In March 2007, an overlay plan was created for NPA 630 adding area code 331, and 779 was added to 815.

  3. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    W.N. Flynt Granite Co., in Monson, Massachusetts, a granite quarry that opened in 1809 and operated until 1935. By 1888, the company employed over 200 workers, and produced about 30,000 tons of granite per year. Quincy Quarries Reservation, in Quincy, Massachusetts, producer of granite from 1826 to 1963, including for the Bunker Hill Monument.

  4. Geology of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Paleogeographic reconstruction showing the Illinois Basin area during the Middle Devonian period. [9] Almost all Silurian rocks in Illinois are deep-water limestone and dolomite deposits; reef habitats were common, and fossils of reef organisms are locally highly abundant, including corals, brachiopods, crinoids, stromatoporoids, and bryozoans. [6]

  5. Area codes 847 and 224 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Illinois Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and extending into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The basin is elongate, extending approximately 400 miles (640 km) northwest-southeast, and 200 miles (320 km) southwest-northeast.

  7. Thornton Quarry - Wikipedia

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    Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, located in Thornton, Illinois just south of Chicago. The quarry is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide, and 450 feet (140 m) deep at its deepest point. Gallagher Asphalt Corporation has been operating on the grounds of the quarry since 1928.

  8. Kildeer, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Area code: 847: FIPS code: 17-39883: ... and form his own government, passing codes and ordinances to serve his own interests. ... Illinois – Racial and ethnic ...

  9. Category:Area codes in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    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.