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312: Chicago, the central city area including the Chicago Loop and the Near North Side. 618/730: Southern Illinois, including Carbondale and most of the Metro East region of St. Louis suburbs in Illinois. 630/331: West suburbs of Chicago in DuPage County and Kane County including Wheaton, Naperville, and Aurora. Area code 630 was overlaid with ...
With the implementation of 872, all local calls in Chicago must be dialed with the full 11-digit phone number (10 digits from cell phones). [ 1 ] The Illinois side of the Chicago area–312/773/872, 708/464 , 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 ...
Missaka Pawwa in Mihintale, where the Arahath Mahinda landed. This is also known as Aradhana Gala. Mihintale is a mountain peak near Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka.It is believed by Sri Lankans to be the site of a meeting between the Buddhist monk Mahinda and King Devanampiyatissa which inaugurated the presence of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
Mihintale line is a 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) gauge railway line in Sri Lanka which starts from Anuradhapura and ends at Mihintale, which was constructed in 1993. The Mihintale line is approximately 11 km (6.8 mi) in length and there are no stations between the termini.
A restaurant at the Kimpton Hotels operated Hotel Allegro, at LaSalle and Randolph Streets in the Loop, is named "312 Chicago". [5] The Chicago-based Christian rock group Resurrection Band released a song called "Area 312" on their 1982 album DMZ [6] Portions of the film RoboCop 2 were filmed in the Chicago area. A telephone number written on ...
This is the largest dagoba built in Sri Lanka after the construction of the Jethavanaramaya in Anuradhapura by King Mahasen in AD 301. The pagoda’s structural completion was carried out with the support of hundreds of Army, Navy, Air Force, Police and Civil Security Department personnel of respective security establishments.
With the exception of a few broken granite Buddha statues in a number of caves, Ritigala has none of the traditional icons of Buddhist temples: no bo tree, no stupas. The first Lanka Vihare (temple) was founded near Ritigala at the foot of the mountain in the second century BC. The Aritta Vihare was founded a century afterwards.
The Hotel Del Prado is a historic apartment hotel at 5307 S. Hyde Park Boulevard in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1918, it is the oldest of the several apartment hotels built in Hyde Park in the late 1910s and 1920s. Hyde Park was growing in both population and prestige at the time, creating a need for additional ...