Batavia, Illinois
| Batavia, Illinois | |
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| Official name: City of Batavia, Illinois | |
| Motto: "Where Tradition and Vision Meet" | |
| Nickname: The Windmill City, City of Energy | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Illinois |
| Counties | Kane, DuPage |
| Townships | Batavia (Kane), Geneva (Kane), Winfield (DuPage) |
| Elevation | 666 ft (203 m) |
| Coordinates | 41°50′56″N 88°18′30″W / 41.84889°N 88.30833°WCoordinates: 41°50′56″N 88°18′30″W / 41.84889°N 88.30833°W |
| Area | 9.70 sq mi (25 km2) |
| - land | 9.64 sq mi (25 km2) |
| - water | 0.07 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Population | 26,318 (2012 estimate) |
| Density | 2,638.4/sq mi (1,019/km2) |
| Settled | 1833 |
| Incorporated | July 27, 1872 |
| Government | Council-manager |
| Mayor | Jeff Schielke |
| Timezone | CST (UTC-6) |
| - summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Postal code | 60510 and 60539 |
| Area codes | 630 and 331 |
 Location in Kane County and the state of Illinois.
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| Website: City of Batavia, Illinois | |
Batavia (/bəˈteɪviə/) is a city in DuPage and Kane counties 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 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.
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.
Batavia was first 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.
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