DECATUR — Sometime during the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 27, making a phone call in parts of Central Illinois will take a little longer. The 217 area code will need to be added to each call, text ...

DECATUR — Sometime during the early hours of Saturday making a phone call in parts of Central Illinois will take a little longer. The 217 area code will need to be added to each call, text or fax made ...

The agency said the new 447 area code will “overlay” the existing 217 area code. It will not be introduced until March 2021. The 217 area code covers 36 counties in Illinois and includes Decatur, ...

SPRINGFIELD — Starting Saturday, Feb. 27, mandatory dialing for residential and business customers will occur where all local calls made within the Illinois 217 Area Code will have to be placed using ...

JACKSONVILLE — The introduction of the new 447 area code in Illinois is set to happen soon, meaning all 10 digits of a phone number will be required to make a local call in the current 217 area. The ...

When all the combinations of prefixes in the 36-county 217 area code have been assigned to the 50 phone companies that serve it, whether or not those companies have actually assigned all those numbers ...

After 15 long years of delays, the long-awaited 447 area code is finally ready to overlay the long-standing 217 code. On Feb. 27, any person making a local call in central Illinois must dial all 10 ...

SPRINGFIELD The firm that administers phone numbers in the United States earlier this month designated central Illinois' 217 area code in "jeopardy" of running out of numbers, the Illinois Commerce ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A vast section of Illinois covered by the 217 area code is about to get some new digits. The Illinois Commerce Commission announced this week that it will introduce 447 as an ...