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An oversized wedding in Chicago has divided Orthodox Jews and foiled contact tracers December 15, 2020 5:32 pm Workers test residents for COVID-19 and its antibodies at a mobile test site in Chicago, Dec. 12, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) Officials in the Chicago area are struggling to uncover whether an Orthodox Jewish wedding that violated public health restrictions led to new COVID-19 cases in the hard-hit city. About 150 guests attended the wedding in a Chicago suburb on Dec. 2 at a time when 14.8% of COVID tests in the surrounding county were coming back positive. The wedding made local news as the latest in a series of events in Orthodox communities that have defied public health guidance and local ordinances. But public health officials charged with tracking the spread of the coronavirus said last week that they had been unable to obtain a list of guests who would need to quarantine or even th ....