For years, telephone industry representatives have said the proliferation of cell phones, pagers and fax machines would one day overrun the capacity of the 847 area code. But for years, customer ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- A new area code is coming to the Chicago suburbs, and state regulators said Wednesday they are helpless to stop it. A 224 area code will be added to the territory northwest ...

Chicago received its first area code in 1947. It served the entire metropolitan area for 42 years before 708 arrived to serve the suburbs. Those two codes survived seven years before phone companies ...

Students returning to campus for Winter Quarter were greeted with an important change to their phone service: four extra digits are now required to make off-campus calls, even if the calls are made ...