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The name, "Tri-City" originated in 1910 with the publication of the first Tri-City Directory: Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, by the Evans Directory Service of Elgin, Illinois. There were ten editions of the Tri-City Directory published from 1910 to 1943. During this same period, the local telephone directories served all three cities, as well.
Batavia Township is in Kane County, Illinois.It is divided by the Fox River.As of the 2010 census, its population was 35,221 and it contained 12,892 housing units. [3] The western part of the United States Department of Energy's Fermilab is at the township's eastern edge (formerly in the village of Weston), although most of the facility is in neighboring Winfield Township in DuPage County.
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, which was in turn named after the Batavian Republic, a short-lived republic that existed from 1795 to 1806 in the present-day ...
The Campana Factory is a historic building in Batavia, Illinois. It was built in 1936 to serve as a factory for The Campana Company, which produced Italian Balm, the most popular hand lotion in the United States during The Great Depression. The Streamline Moderne and Bauhaus building features many innovative technologies, such as air conditioning.
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, commonly known as Frank Pepe's or simply Pepe's (/ ˈ p ɛ p i z /), is a popular pizza restaurant in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, at 163 Wooster Street and originator of New Haven-style pizza. Opened in 1925, it is one of the oldest and best known pizzerias in the United States.
Campana Corporation was incorporated in Delaware in 1926, then authorized to operate in Illinois in 1927. Its first product was Italian Balm, a hand lotion.According to I. Willard Crull, the founder's nephew and successor as president, Italian Balm was invented by William Cox, who named the product after Dr. Roberto Campana, an Italian skin specialist he held in high regard.
Batavia High School, or BHS, is a public four-year high school located in Batavia, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago.It was created by the merger of West Batavia High School and East Batavia High School (and their separate school districts) in April 1911 and is part of Batavia Public School District 101; the East Batavia and West Batavia athletic programs merged in 1909.
The Batavia Depot Museum is a museum in Batavia, Illinois that was once the town's primary train station. It was the first of many depots built by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad . [ 2 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Depot .