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This is a list of the area codes in the state of Illinois and its numbering plan areas in the North American Numbering Plan.. All NPAs within Illinois. 217/447: Central Illinois, including the region running west from the Illinois-Indiana border through Danville, Effingham, Champaign–Urbana, Decatur, Springfield, Quincy until Illinois' western border with Missouri and Iowa
Joyce Holmberg, educator and Illinois state senator; Alta M. Hulett, attorney, first woman admitted to the state of Illinois Bar [15] Betty Ann Keegan, Illinois State Senator; Julia Lathrop, social and political activist, subject of biography My Friend, Julia Lathrop (1935) by Jane Addams [16] Emma Octavia Lundberg, Swedish-American child ...
Gasparini Oliveri Funeral Home, a part of the Rockford business community since 1932, has closed and transferred the business at 707 Marchesano Dr. to Olson Funeral & Cremation Services.
The most populous of these is Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States and the home of Chicago, while the least populous is Hardin County. The largest by land area is McLean County, while the smallest is Putnam County. Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL.
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 ...
Rockford Register Star – Rockford; Shelbyville Daily Union – Shelbyville; The Sidell Reporter – Sidell; The Southern Illinoisan – Carbondale; Star Courier – Kewanee; The State Journal-Register – Springfield; The Telegraph – Alton; The Telegraph – Dixon; The Times – Ottawa
Greenwood Cemetery is a 100-acre (40 ha) cemetery in Rockford, Illinois. Founded in 1852, it is the largest and oldest in the city. Founded in 1852, it is the largest and oldest in the city. The Greenwood Cemetery Chapel and Crematory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
In northern Illinois, Macktown is the only community from the 1830s that is still standing without subsequent development. [6] On June 14, 2021, a large explosion and subsequent fire affected the Chemtool Lubrication production plant in Rockton. There were no serious injuries, but an area within a one-mile radius from the fire was evacuated.