Main city: Ivesdale
Timezone: Central
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Frontier Communications Of The Carolinas, Inc

Ivesdale, a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 267 at the 2010 census. It is served by Saint Joseph Catholic Parish and is home to Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church (built in 1894) which is known locally as "The Cathedral of the Cornfield". The town's most recent mayor Bernard Alblinger was the second longest serving mayor in the history of Illinois, serving a total of 48 consecutive years from 1963 until his death in 2011. ^source

Area code 217 is the North American telephone area code for much of western and central Illinois. The 217 area includes Illinois' capital Springfield, plus Champaign, Urbana, Decatur, Danville, Quincy, and Rantoul. 217 was one of the original area codes, which were created in 1947. ^source