Where is Area Code 217?

The most populous cities in area code 217 are: Milton, Champaign, Urbana, Belleville, and Quincy.

Other cities in the 217 area code include: Homer, Jacksonville, Mahomet, Rantoul, Taylorville, Waterloo, Danville, Crystal Lake, Chatham, Lincoln, Beardstown, Carlinville, Tolono, Rochester, Wilmington, Hoopeston, Auburn, Sullivan, Tuscola, Ludlow, Paxton, Pittsfield, Shelbyville, Camargo, Riverton, Oakwood, Gibson City, Georgetown, West Point, Catlin, Watson, Pawnee, Arcola, Newton, Westville, Granville, Palmyra, Hamilton, Buffalo, Teutopolis, Litchfield, Gillespie, Tilton, Carthage, and Franklin.

Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County. The city's population of 116,250 as of the 2010 U.S. Census makes it the state's sixth most populous city. It is the largest city in central Illinois. As of 2013, the city's population was estimated to have increased to 117,006, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County. Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President.

Decatur / d ə ˈ k eɪ t ər / is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city was founded in 1829 and is along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. In 2015, the city's estimated population was 73,254. The city is home of private Millikin University and public Richland Community College. Decatur has vast industrial and agricultural processing production, including the North American headquarters of agricultural conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland, international agribusiness Tate & Lyle's largest corn-processing plant, and the designing and manufacturing facilities for Caterpillar Inc.'s wheel-tractor scrapers, off-highway trucks, and large mining trucks.

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The city is 135 miles (217 km) south of Chicago, 124 miles (200 km) west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 mi (286 km) northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. The United States Census Bureau estimates the city was home to 84,513 people as of July 1, 2014. Champaign is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois, and the state's fourth-most populous city outside of the Chicago metropolitan area.Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with its sister city of Urbana. Champaign is also the home of Parkland College which serves about 18,000 students during the academic year.

The 217 area code lies within the Central Daylight Time Zone (or CDT). The current time in CDT is 3:49 PM on Jul 11, 2020.