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Area code 312. Coordinates: 41°52′48″N 87°37′54″W. All NPAs within Illinois. Area code 312 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the city of Chicago, including downtown, the Chicago Loop, and its immediate environs. The numbering plan area is completely surrounded by area code 773, which serves the rest of ...
773: Chicago, covers most of the geographical area of Chicago except the downtown Chicago Loop, which is in area code 312. 815/779: Northern Illinois outside of the immediate Chicago area including Joliet, Kankakee, LaSalle, DeKalb, and Rockford. Area code 815 was overlaid with area code 779 in 2007. 847/224: North and northwest suburbs of ...
Chicago Transit Authority. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) Chicago Surface Lines car 3142 at Illinois Railway Museum. The Chicago Surface Lines ( CSL) was operator of the street railway system of Chicago, Illinois, from 1913 to 1947. The firm is a predecessor of today's publicly owned operator, the Chicago Transit ...
Los Angeles MTA: Los Angeles: Electric March 3, 1958: March 31, 1963 Angels Flight: Los Angeles: Funicular 1901. 1996 1969 Reopened in 1996 a few blocks away from the original site. Metro Rail (A, E, L and C lines) Los Angeles: Electric Light rail July 14, 1990: Part of Los Angeles' larger Metro Rail network, which also includes the rapid ...
South Chicago, formerly known as Ainsworth, is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois . This chevron -shaped community is one of Chicago's 16 lakefront neighborhoods near the southern rim of Lake Michigan 10 miles south of downtown. A working-class neighborhood, it is bordered by East 79th Street on the north, South Chicago Avenue ...
The Central Manufacturing District of Chicago is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) area [1] of the city in which private decision makers planned the structure of the district and its internal regulation, including the provision of vital services ordinarily considered to be outside the scope of private enterprise. [2]
A scattering of diagonal streets, many of them originally Native American trails [citation needed], also cross the city. Many additional diagonal streets were recommended in the Plan of Chicago, but only the extension of Ogden Avenue was ever constructed. In the 1950s and 1960s, a network of superhighways was built radiating from the city center.
On October 7, 2007, area code 331 began overlaying area code 630, making ten-digit dialing mandatory in the area. The Illinois side of the Chicago area–312/773/872, 708, 847/224, 630/331 and portions of 815/779–is one of the largest local calling areas in the United States; with few exceptions, no long-distance charges are applied from one ...