“Yes, the Railroad had prevailed,” Frank Norris writes in the closing pages of The Octopus. “The ranches had been seized in the tentacles of the octopus; the iniquitous burden of extortionate freight rates had been imposed like a yoke of iron."
On Sunday, we headed down to Pilsen for a reenactment of the 1877 Battle of the Halsted St. Viaduct. Everything old is new again... take a look at the video. The man with the bullhorn is Albert Parsons aka Paul Durica.
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