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Many people begin the new year with glasses of Champagne, but some Chicago-area parents started the first hours of 2024 with the birth of a child. Basya and Ezra Moskowitz welcomed their new baby, a boy weighing 7 pounds and 2 ounces, just after midnight Monday. He was among the first children born in local hospitals in 2024, and possibly the very first. The Chicago couple’s son was born at .