Tom Morello took in the news with a blank expression.

He was not surprised, he was not shocked, but no, he had not heard yet: Just hours earlier, 10 miles south of where he was at the Goodman Theatre, rehearsing a new musical about a militarized occupation of the South Side, federal immigration officers rappelled from helicopters and stormed into residential apartments on South Shore Drive.

“Today,” he said.

It was not a question. More like an affirmation. Outside on the sidewalk was a chalked reminder of the latest “No Kings” protest. A few blocks away, a group of elderly women struck a modest resistance, waving small signs calling for the removal of ICE from Illinois. And here, inside the Goodman, Morello, native of Libertyville and resident of Los Angeles, was doing his part, buildin

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