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    Batavia (/bəˈteɪviə/) 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...
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    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...
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  • California Batavia, Illinois, a city in Kane County, Illinois, named for the city in New York Batavia, Iowa, a city in Jefferson County, Iowa Batavia, Michigan...
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    situated between the large cities of Aurora and Elgin, Illinois, and encompasses the cities of Batavia, Geneva, and St. Charles. A "vernacular region" is...
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  • the far north end of the city (north of I88 in Kane County) attend Batavia, Illinois public schools, some on the far southwest side attend the Kaneland...
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    Jackie DeShannon (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    father continued his career as a barber, and then (in 1952) to nearby Batavia, Illinois, where Sherry Lee (as she called herself) attended high school. In...
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    The Batavia Institute (currently recognized name) also known as Bellevue Place Sanitarium is a Registered Historic Place in Batavia, Illinois, US. Batavia...
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    in Kane County, Illinois Tri-Cities, Illinois Geneva, Illinois§Notable people Batavia, Illinois§Notable people St. Charles, Illinois§Notable people List...
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    further west in the United States to such places as Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, and Batavia, Ohio. When the Pannerdens Kanaal was dug between 1701...
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    Pat Bergeson (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    Batavia, Illinois, and first started playing drums and later picked up the guitar and the harmonica. He studied music at the University of Illinois in...
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    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...
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    worldwide. The concept for the grill was created by Michael Boehm of Batavia, Illinois. The original intention was to create an indoor grill that cooked...
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    Dan Issel (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. Issel was born in Batavia, Illinois, son of Robert and Elanor Issel, and grew up with sister Kathi and...
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    Kerri Hoskins (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    Sean Reavis in 2017, and now lives in Batavia. In October 2012, Hoskins ran for a seat on the Kane County, Illinois board. On October 18, 2022, Hoskins...
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  • J. W. Eddy (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    before going to Illinois in 1853, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1855. He practiced in Batavia, Illinois, where he also...
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    Craig Sager (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    Curt Gowdy Media Award. Sager was born June 29, 1951, in Batavia, Illinois. He attended Batavia High School, gaining recognition in 1966 by writing an essay...
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  • Ken Anderson (quarterback) (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    Batavia, Illinois. Growing up in Batavia, Anderson's backyard adjoined his friend, Dan Issel’s back yard. Anderson's father was a janitor at Batavia High...
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    Bill Heine (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    show. Heine's last regular broadcast was on 24 April 2016. Born in Batavia, Illinois, Heine lived in Oxford since studying for a postgraduate degree at...
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  • Anthony Tyznik of Batavia, Illinois, who for many years was the landscape architect for the Morton Arboretum in Chicago, Illinois. The arboretum has...
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    Batavia is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, New York, United States. It is located near the center of the county, surrounded by the Town...
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  • D0 meson D0 experiment, at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, in Batavia, Illinois, US D0 motorway (Czech Republic), the partially complete outer ring...
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    Fermilab (category Batavia, Illinois)
    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory...
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    Carlay Company later became a division of Campana Corporation of Batavia, Illinois. Then Campana bought Allied Laboratories of Kansas City in 1956. After...
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    Birgit Ridderstedt's mail box in Batavia, Illinois, in 1958...
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    Tevatron (category Buildings and structures in DuPage County, Illinois)
    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (called Fermilab), east of Batavia, Illinois, and was the highest energy particle collider until the Large Hadron...
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  • Stephanie Pace Marshall (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    for Batavia Public School District 101. From 1983 to 1985, She served as Batavia's superintendent. Marshall served as president of the Illinois Mathematics...
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    Leon M. Lederman (category Illinois Institute of Technology faculty)
    Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, where he was resident...
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  • Jeffery Schielke has been Mayor of Batavia, Illinois for over 40 years...
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  • Isaac Wilson (American politician) (category People from Batavia, Illinois)
    County, Vermont – October 25, 1848 Batavia, Kane County, Illinois) was an American politician from New York and Illinois. Wilson served in the War of 1812...
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    the previous governor in 2007 and 2008. The mayors of Aurora and Batavia, Illinois, also have issued proclamations. Numerous churches and denominations...
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