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Packingtown
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English
Etymology
From en packing town.
Proper noun
en historical en industrial area city/Chicago s/Illinois c/USA, known for its meatpacking industry.
They had no authority beyond that; for the inspection of meat to be sold in the city and state the whole force in Packingtown consisted of three henchmen of the local political machine!
en Packingtown https://history.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/Vignette_Packingtown_.pdf 2025-10-03 1 w:Illinois State University By the early 1900s Chicago’s Packingtown had taken mass production to its rational extreme. https://web.archive.org/web/20240727121939/https://history.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/Vignette_Packingtown_.pdf