ROCKFORD — This is nothing to get hung up about, but there are millions of unused 815 phone numbers that will never meet a dial tone. For a city that cherishes its 815 brand — from popular Rockford ...

PONTIAC, Ill. (AP) -- Calls to next-door neighbors will require as much dialing as long distance early next year in the sprawling 815 area code, which stretches across northern Illinois from Indiana ...

Calling a next-door neighbor will require dialing 11 digits in the 815 area code come Feb. 17–a change likely to spread across most of Illinois in coming years as phone-number usage proliferates in an ...

SPRINGFIELD - Callers in Illinois' 815 area code will have to dial 11 digits for both local and long-distance calls beginning Feb. 17 when a second area code is launched in the northern Illinois ...

Illinois regulators are gearing up for a decision on yet another new area code. This time it is in the sprawling 815 area, which borders the Chicago area in a broad arc extending from south and ...