Proper noun
An industrial area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, known for its meatpacking industry.
Usage- Historical
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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!
By the early 1900s Chicago’s Packingtown had taken mass production to its rational extreme.