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Area codes never really meant anything in Chicagoland - at least no more than that you lived within a certain geography. No status was ever assigned to them that I know of.
I've gone through 3 different area codes without moving - my home, in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and about a 45 minute drive away, was part of the 312 area code for the first portion of my childhood years. At some point, this got changed to 708 (I was old enough to vaguely remember this - probably 2nd grade or so) and that stuck for awhile. Probably around 8th grade it got switched to 847. Now, instead of splitting up an area into multiple area codes again, they're being more arbitrary about it and making us have to dial 11 digits no matter where we call - even within our own area code. It's pretty rediculous if you ask me.
Right now I'm living at school in the 773 area code which was formed at the same time as the 847 area code. 312, which used to encompass all of Chicagoland when I was a youngin, is now limited to only downtown Chicago.
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