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This is a list of the area codes in the state of Illinois and its numbering plan areas in the North American Numbering Plan.
In the group of original North American area codes, established in 1947, all of the Chicago metropolitan area was part of numbering plan area 312, the rest of northern Illinois was 815, central Illinois was 217, and southern Illinois was 618. In 1957, area code 815 was split for the assignment of area code 309 to western central Illinois. No further changes took place for 33 years.
In 1989, area code 708 was created for all of the suburbs in the Chicago metropolitan area while the city of Chicago kept the original 312. Area codes 847 (northern suburbs) and 630 (western suburbs) were created from a split of suburban area code 708 in 1996. Shortly after in 1996, area code 773 was created for the residential parts of the city of Chicago, while downtown kept area code 312. Area code 847 exhausted its numbers quickly, so that an overlay area code, 224, was implemented in 1996 for relief. However, mandatory ten-digit dialing was not in effect until 2002. In March 2007, an overlay plan was created for NPA 630 adding area code 331, and 779 was added to 815. With the depletion of new numbers in area codes 312 and 773, an overlay of both of them, area code 872, was created in November 2009, beginning ten-digit dialing within the city limits of Chicago. The remaining area without an overlay in the northern part of Illinois, 708, eventually received such with area code 464 taking effect on January 21, 2022.
Downstate, no changes took place from 1957 until 2021, when area code 447 was implemented as an overlay with 217, mandating ten-digit dialing. The remainder of the state switched to ten-digit dialing in October 2021, as a result of the implementation of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Two years later, area code 861 went into effect on February 24, 2023, as an overlay with 309.[1][2] Area code 730 went into effect on July 7, 2023, as an overlay complex with 618. As of that date, all numbering plan areas of Illinois are therefore overlays.
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