Illinois regulators have asked customers how to deal with the near “exhaustion” of available telephone numbers in most of southwest Will County and now must decide on adding a new area code to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...