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Facts about Batavia

Batavia is also known as: The Windmill City, and City of Energy.

And some of the notable people born here have been: Craig Sager (journalist), and Pat Bergeson (musician and songwriter).

And featured attractions of Batavia: First Methodist Church of Batavia, Batavia Institute, Campana Factory, Louise White School, and Mrs. A. W. Gridley House.

Batavia is a suburb of Chicago. It was founded in 1833, and is the oldest city in Kane County, Illinois. A small portion of Batavia lies in DuPage 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 in the city. 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. A "vernacular region" is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, mutual interests, and a common identity. Such regions are "intellectual inventions" and a form of shorthand to identify things, people, and places. Vernacular regions reflect a "sense of place," but rarely coincide with established jurisdictional borders.As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 26,045, which was estimated to have increased to 26,318 by July 2012.

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