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 ...

Illinois regulators will decide Wednesday whether to fight the implementation of a new area code in Chicago’s north and northwest suburbs, or let the new code take effect this spring. The telephone ...

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 ...