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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Calling a next-door neighbor will require dialing 11 digits in the 815 area code come Feb. 17–a change likely to spread across most of Illinois in coming years as phone-number usage proliferates in an ...

ROCKFORD — They’re one of life’s true annoyances and they’re becoming more frequent. Robocalls, which are automatically dialed by a computer and deliver a prerecorded message, are on the rise across ...

Are you ready for Rockford Day? Rockford Day is celebration of all things Rockford and takes place each year on Aug. 15, also known as 815 Day, which is a nod to the region's popular 815 area code.