<P> Pioneers to the area first called `` Town of Lake '' were S.S. Crocker and John Caffrey . Indeed , Crocker earned the nickname `` Father of the Town of Lake . '' By February 1865 the area was incorporated officially as `` Town of Lake '' the area still consisted of fewer than 700 persons . In the early 1860s the meat packing industry of the United States was still located in Cincinnati , Ohio , the original `` Porkopolis '' of the pre-Civil War era . However , with the end of the American Civil War , the meat packing industry had started to move westward along with the westward migration of the population of the United States . For the meat packing industry moving west meant coming to Chicago . As early as 1827 , Archibauld Clybourn had established himself as a butcher in a log slaughter house on the north branch of the Chicago River and supplied most to the garrison of Fort Dearborn . Other small butchers came later . In 1848 , the Bull 's Head Stockyard began operations at Madison Street and Ogden Avenue on the West Side of Chicago . Operations for this early stockyard , however , still meant holding and feeding cattle and hogs in transit to meat packing plants further east -- Indianapolis and , of course , Cincinnati . </P>
<P> Pioneers to the area first called `` Town of Lake '' were S.S. Crocker and John Caffrey . Indeed , Crocker earned the nickname `` Father of the Town of Lake . '' By February 1865 the area was incorporated officially as `` Town of Lake '' the area still consisted of fewer than 700 persons . In the early 1860s the meat packing industry of the United States was still located in Cincinnati , Ohio , the original `` Porkopolis '' of the pre-Civil War era . However , with the end of the American Civil War , the meat packing industry had started to move westward along with the westward migration of the population of the United States . For the meat packing industry moving west meant coming to Chicago . As early as 1827 , Archibauld Clybourn had established himself as a butcher in a log slaughter house on the north branch of the Chicago River and supplied most to the garrison of Fort Dearborn . Other small butchers came later . In 1848 , the Bull 's Head Stockyard began operations at Madison Street and Ogden Avenue on the West Side of Chicago . Operations for this early stockyard , however , still meant holding and feeding cattle and hogs in transit to meat packing plants further east -- Indianapolis and , of course , Cincinnati . </P>
which city was known as porkopolis after its slaughterhouse district
which city was known as porkopolis after its slaughterhouse district
Cincinnati , Ohio
Cincinnati , Ohio