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 ...

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 ...

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 ...