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Governors State University (Governors State, GSU, GovState, or GOVST) is a public university in University Park, Illinois, United States. The 750 acres (3.0 km 2) campus is located 30 miles (48 km) south of Chicago, Illinois. GSU was founded in 1969. It is a public university offering degree programs at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral ...
With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the northern part of Illinois, 708, eventually received such with area code 464 taking effect on January 21 ...
In 1989, area code 708 was created for the suburbs, leaving the city in area code 312. By the mid-1990s, Chicago's continued growth and the proliferation of cell phones and pagers made it apparent that the city needed a new area code. It was decided to split off all of the city outside the downtown area as 773. The new area code went into ...
Pages in category "Area codes in Illinois" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Area code 773; Area codes 815 and 779; Area codes 847 and ...
The Metro East is an urban area in Southern Illinois, United States that contains the eastern and northern urban, suburban, and exurban areas on the Mississippi River in Greater St. Louis. It encompasses eight Illinois counties and constitutes the second-most populous metropolitan area in Illinois .
One City Center (also called 600 Washington, St. Louis Centre, and sometimes spelled One City Centre) is an office tower complex and former shopping mall in St. Louis, Missouri. Mall entrance in 2010 before redevelopment. The 25-story office tower is the ninth-tallest habitable building in St. Louis at a height of 375 feet (114 m). [1]
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 from one ...
The new area code was one of the first area codes not serving an entire state, but having the digit 0 in the middle position of the code. It was the only new area code created in Illinois between 1947 and the 1989 creation of area code 708. [2] In preparation of an overlay plan with the new area code 779, all calls from the 815 area needed to ...