Packingtown

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proper noun

An industrial area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, known for its meatpacking industry.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. historicalAn industrial area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, known for its meatpacking industry.

    By the early 1900s Chicago’s Packingtown had taken mass production to its rational extreme.

    2025 October 3 (last accessed), “Packingtown”, in Illinois State University, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2024, page 1
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    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!

    1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC

Origin

From packing + town.

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Packingtown. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Packingtown

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“Packingtown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Packingtown. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Packingtown,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Packingtown.

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