๐บ๐ธ Batavia is a city mainly in Kane County and partly in DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it was founded in 1833 and is the oldest city in Kane County.
During the latter part of the 19th century, Batavia, home to six American-style windmill manufacturing companies, became known as "The Windmill City". Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a federal government-sponsored high-energy physics laboratory, where both the bottom quark and the top quark were first detected, is located just east of the city limits.
Batavia is part of a vernacular region known as the Tri-City area, along with St. Charles and Geneva, all western suburbs of similar size and relative socioeconomic condition.
History Batavia was settled in 1833 by Christopher Payne and his family. Originally called Big Woods for the wild growth throughout the settlement, the town was renamed by local judge and former Congressman Isaac Wilson in 1840 after his former home of Batavia, New York. Because Judge Wilson owned the majority of the town, he was given permission to rename the city.
Batavia's settlement was delayed one year by the Black Hawk War, in which Abraham Lincoln was a citizen soldier, and Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis were Army officers. Although there is no direct evidence that Lincoln, Taylor, or Davis visited the future site of Batavia, there are writings by Lincoln that refer to "Head of the Big Woods", Batavia's original name. The city was incorporated on July 27, 1872.
After the death of her husband, Mary Todd Lincoln was an involuntary resident of the Batavia Institute on May 20, 1875. At the time the institute was known as Bellevue Place, a sanitarium for women. Mrs. Lincoln was released four months later on September 11, 1875. In the late 19th century, Batavia was a major manufacturer of the Conestoga wagons used in the country's westward expansion. Into the early 20th century, most of the windmill operated waterpumps in use by America's farms were made at one of three windmill manufacturing companies in Batavia. Many of the limestone buildings of these factories remain in use as government and commercial offices, and storefronts. The Aurora Elgin and Chicago Railway constructed a power plant in southern Batavia and added a branch to the city in 1902. The Campana Factory was built in 1936 to manufacture cosmetics for The Campana Company, particularly Italian Balm, the nation's best-selling hand lotion at the time.
Economy Aldi, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Aldi Sรผd, has its headquarters in Batavia.
Fermilab is located just outside the town borders and serves as employment for many of the town's residents.
According to a recent Financial Report, the top employers in the city include: 1 Fermi Research Alliance; 2 Suncast Corporation; 3 Aldi, Inc.; 4 AGCO Corporation; 5 Power Packaging; 6 HOBI International; 7 VWR Scientific; 8 Batavia Container; 9 Flinn Scientific Inc.; 10 DS Containers, Inc.
Transport โข Bus transportation serviced by Pace โข Nearest Metra train station is at Geneva or Aurora.
Accolades โข In 2013, Batavia's collection of historic windmills was designated as an Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Batavia has a population of over 26,098 people. Batavia also forms part of the wider Kane County which has a population of over 532,403 people. It is also a part of the larger Chicago metropolitan area. Batavia is situated 4 km south of Geneva.
๐บ๐ธ Scottsbluff 41.867
๐ช๐ธ Santa Coloma de Farners 41.85
๐บ๐ธ Providence 41.817
๐บ๐ธ Torrington 41.8
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Elgin -88.284
๐บ๐ธ Champaign-Urbana -88.241
๐บ๐ธ Plainfield -88.233
๐บ๐ธ Hanover Township -88.2
๐ง๐ฟ Belize City -88.198
๐บ๐ธ Crystal Lake -88.333
๐ธ๐ป Ciudad Romero -88.45
๐บ๐ธ Fond du Lac -88.45
๐บ๐ธ Pascagoula -88.547
Locations Near: Batavia -88.3088,41.85
๐บ๐ธ Geneva -88.31,41.89 d: 4.4
๐บ๐ธ Aurora -88.29,41.764 d: 9.7
๐บ๐ธ Oswego -88.333,41.683 d: 18.6
๐บ๐ธ Naperville -88.166,41.748 d: 16.4
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Elgin -88.284,42.04 d: 21.2
๐บ๐ธ Hanover Township -88.2,42.017 d: 20.6
๐บ๐ธ Wheaton -88.1,41.85 d: 17.3
๐บ๐ธ Yorkville -88.433,41.65 d: 24.5
๐บ๐ธ Plainfield -88.233,41.617 d: 26.7
๐บ๐ธ Bolingbrook -88.081,41.698 d: 25.4
Antipodal to: Batavia 91.691,-41.85
๐ฆ๐บ Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 17712.3
๐ฆ๐บ Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 17658.5
๐ฆ๐บ Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 17642.8
๐ฆ๐บ City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 17627.6
๐ฆ๐บ Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 17613.2
๐ฆ๐บ Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 17612.5
๐ฆ๐บ Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 17603.8
๐ฆ๐บ Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 17600.1