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Roughly along Illinois Route 31 and Campana Rd. Batavia: A state-of-the-art factory built in 1936 for The Campana Company, a cosmetics manufacturer. It is an example of the 1930s Streamline Moderne trend. The factory incorporated many innovative elements, such as air conditioning and a unique assembly line method.
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.
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Batavia (/ b ə ˈ t eɪ v i ə /) is a city mainly in Kane County and partly in DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located in the Chicago metropolitan area , it was founded in 1833 and is the oldest city in Kane County. [ 4 ]
The Eastside Community Center, formerly the Catholic Holy Cross Church, is an historic building in Batavia, Illinois.It was built in 1897 to serve the Holy Cross congregation of Batavia, many of whom were Irish immigrants who came to work in local quarries.
Batavia Institute, a private academy, was chartered on 12 February 1853 by 13 men, including Rev. Stephen Peet, the Congregational minister, Elijah Shumway Town, Joel McKee, John Van Nortwick, Dennison K. Town, who settled in Batavia in 1839 as its first physician, and Isaac G. Wilson.
Until December 1989, Army Trail Road was the southern terminus of the freeway portion of Illinois Route 53, which was subsequently designated I-355. In December 1989, the North-South Tollway was opened extending the limited access highway south to I-55 and reducing the traffic flow caused by the concurrency of Route 53 and a short stretch of ...
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