Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Help Please Chicago Local Calling Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 89 14:08:30 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 509, message 9 of 13 606xx zipcodes pick up some suburban points; for example, what area code is Cicero going to be in? 602xx and 603xx zipcodes will be in 708. 600xx, 601xx, 604xx, and 605xx zipcodes will, except for those now in 815, be in 708. (This contradicts part of what was just sent out by the moderator. Try looking at Crystal Lake, IL 60014, using prefix 815-459.) [Moderator's Note: Carl raises good points. Cicero, IL uses the Chicago Post Office. It will be in 708 *mostly*, but there will be a few boundary line 'discrepancies' ala Harwood Heights. The 600xx zip codes serve far north points, and only a few exceptions in small towns will be far enough west to be in 815 instead of 708. Speaking of Crystal Lake, the (old) 312/815 boundary in that relatively secluded far northwest area was always sort of ragged also. Fox Lake 312 [708] - 587 has lots of 815 phones in the area, depending on where you are as you go around the shore of the lake, or down the highway to Crystal Lake. PT]