Place:Batavia, Kane, Illinois, United States

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NameBatavia
TypeCity
Coordinates41.85°N 88.3°W
Located inKane, Illinois, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
East Batavia Cemetery
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Batavia is a suburb of Chicago. It was founded in 1833, and is the oldest city in Kane County, Illinois, with a small portion in DuPage County. During the Industrial Revolution, Batavia became known as ‘The Windmill City’ for being the largest windmill producer of the time.[1] Fermilab, a federal government-sponsored high-energy physics laboratory, where both the bottom quark and the top quark were first detected, is located here. Batavia is part of a Tri-Cities area, along with St. Charles and Geneva. Its population has been increasing, from 23,866 in the 2000 U.S. census,[2] 25,246 in 2003 to 27,502 in the 2008 U.S. Census Bureau census

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