Batavia

   Batavia is the centerpiece of the Batavia-Geneva-St. Charles tri-cities area. Batavia is about 40 miles west of Chicago in the center of the Fox River Valley.
   The aptly named Christopher Columbus Payne first arrived in Batavia in 1833. With industries fueled by the Fox River, Batavia became one of the world’s top windmill manufacturers and soon was known as "The Windmill City."
   Batavia's rock quarries supplied the stones that helped to rebuild Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871. Batavia was also home to Bellevue Place, a sanitarium and rest home where Mary Todd Lincoln spent three months after her husband’s assassination in 1865.
   Today, life in Batavia harkens back to the small-town descriptions of Mark Twain and Sinclair Lewis. Flag Day originated in Batavia, and several windmills grace the downtown square. The city is also home to Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory, a Department of Energy facility dedicated to high-energy physics research.

Activities

   The Batavia Park District offers more than 1,000 programs and services annually in its 29 parks. The district also maintains bike trails, ski trails, community and civic centers, and boating and fishing facilities.
   Quarry Park Swimming Pool is a popular facility located within one of the city's historic stone quarries. More history can be found at The Depot Museum, which is managed by the park district and the Batavia Historical Society.
   Batavia also has its own 18-hole golf course, Settler’s Hill. Just north of town in Geneva, the Fox Valley Ice Arena offers public skating as well as recreational hockey and other sporting events.

Batavia Fast Facts

   Location: Batavia is located about 40 miles west of Chicago
*Total area: 9.19 square miles
*Population: 23,866
*Housing units: 8,806
   Average annual rainfall: 38.39 inches
   Average temperatures: 72ºF in summer, 20ºF in winter
*Information provided by 2000 Census

Schools

There are eight public schools in Batavia: six elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. Students consistently score higher than the national average in basic skills testing, and most score above the national average in vocabulary, reading, language and math.
Institutes of higher education include Batavia University and Waubonsee Community College.

Homes

Townhouses, condominiums and single-family detached homes are available in Batavia. Properties with waterfront frontage are also available.
Styles include contemporary, colonial, ranch, bungalow, Cape Cod, Victorian, Georgian and early American. Homes and lots are also available for custom construction in neighborhoods such as Davey Farm, Fox Trail, The Knolls, Pheasant Ridge, Prairie Trail, Tanglewood Hills and Wild Meadows.

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Brian Rolison

Umm, there is no such thing as Batavia University. Batavia was actually the world's windmill capital at one point. As in the town had the largest windmill company in the world at a time when windmills were the main source of energy. And the nickname is more often the City of Energy. Batavia is not the centerpiece of St. Charles, Geneva and Batavia. In fact, there is an old addage that goes: St. Charles is "new money", Geneva is "old money", and Batavia is no money. Batavia is actually very much the stereotypical suburb, but in an atypical way. When I was there, it was very middle class, but it was populated with blue-collar workers who had done well for themselves, or teachers who worked in well-paying districts. In fact, there are a lot of government workers in town. It's also crushingly Republican. I'm not saying that that's necessarily bad, but a lot of people find that to be pretty bad. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) is headquartered in Batavia, and he's kind of a jerk. Batavia is undergoing rapid development in the forms of subdivisions and strip malls. Yay for tract housing!

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