After 11 months of negotiations over a new contract, the 100 full-time musicians who comprise the famed Chicago Symphony Orchestra walked out on strike at 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Picket lines went up in front of Orchestra Hall, the CSO’s home performance space, at 8 a.m. on Monday morning. Steve Lester, bassist and chair of the musicians’ contract negotiating committee, said the picket line will stretch across all doors of Orchestra Hall for 12 hours a day until a contract “that is fair to musicians”…
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