What is "hogtown"

Hogtown may refer to certain places in Canada or the United States:

• Hogtown, Florida, a former community in Alachua County, Florida
• Hogtown, Indiana

Nicknames:

• a historic nickname for Toronto, Ontario (see Name of Toronto)
• a historic nickname for Cincinnati, Ohio
• Madison Heights, Virginia

Hogtown is a multi-racial, multilingual "period-less" 2015 independent film. The Chicago Sun-Times acknowledged it as "the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date". The Chicago Reader named it the best film about Chicago and the best film made in Chicago, "period," for 2015. The film won Best Picture awards at the 30th Black International Cinema Berlin, the 2015 International Black Film Festival (Nashville), the 2015 Los Angeles Black Film Festival, and the 2015 Independent Film Playoff (Los Angeles). It is the second of three films in an unnamed trilogy, following the 2010 film Chicago Heights. The third film is in development.

Set against the backdrop of the 1919 Chicago race riots, the story revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a millionaire theater owner during a snowstorm.