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Local 224 numbers
Get a 224 phone number for the north suburbs of Chicago.
Ask for 224 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago, from Evanston to Waukegan and Elgin. Calls ring the phone you already carry.
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This is how you get a 224 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
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Your numbers
Apartment hunt
(224) 555-0127
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Market stand
(224) 555-0163
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Snowblower sale
(224) 555-0109
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People ask for 224 when the search is in the north suburbs.
A booth at a farmers market or a craft fair needs a number on the sign.
Print a 224 number on the card, take the orders on your own phone and set it to Texts only when the stand is closed.
A used car or a snowblower for sale draws buyers from Waukegan to Elgin.
Post a 224 number with the photos, keep your own number off the ad and end the number when the sale is done.
This is where a 224 number is from.
Area code 224 covers the north and northwest suburbs of Chicago, the same area as 847.
The numbering administrator's rate center map for the area names Evanston, Skokie, Waukegan, Elgin, Arlington Heights, Palatine, Des Plaines, Highland Park, Libertyville, Barrington, Northbrook and Glenview, among 38 rate centers in all. The City of Chicago itself uses 312, 773 and 872.
the northern and northwest Chicago suburbs, IL
Area code 224 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1996
847
Shares the area
2002
224
This code
- Evanston
- Skokie
- Waukegan
- Elgin
- Arlington Heights
- Palatine
- Des Plaines
- Highland Park
- Libertyville
- Barrington
- Northbrook
- Mount Prospect
These are the facts about area code 224.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- the northern and northwest Chicago suburbs, Illinois
- In service since
- 2002
- Local calls are dialed with
- 1 plus ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 847 (1996)
847 was split from 708 in January 1996 and took the north and northwest suburbs. 224 was assigned in 1998 as an overlay on the same streets, and it went into service in January 2002 once the Illinois Commerce Commission had set the dialing date.
From early January 2002 every local call in the area has been dialed as 1 plus all ten digits. 224 was the first overlay code in Illinois.
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Create a number in your dashboard, type 224 as the area code and give it a name, such as Apartment hunt. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live near Chicago: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A snow-plowing crew, a tutor or a baker in Arlington Heights can put a 224 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the season ends.
Yes. The 224 area takes in Evanston, Skokie, Waukegan, Elgin, Arlington Heights and Palatine, the same area as 847.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.
The state, the dates and the related codes are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database. The places are from its planning letters and the state’s own pages. Read October 21, 2026.
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