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Batavia (Illinois, USA)

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Batavia

City in northeastern Illinois, 56 km/35 mi west of Chicago, on the Fox River; population (1990 est) 17,100. It has iron and brass foundries and manufactures farm machinery, electric switches, truck bodies, castings, and television tubes. There are limestone deposits nearby. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), one of the largest particle physics research centres in the USA, is immediately east of the city.

It was settled in 1833 by Dutch immigrants and was a major centre for American windmill manufacture through the early 20th century.



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