On this day, January 28 · Chronopin

On this day, January 28 · Chronopin

2025

Property10/10/2026@BuildDesk
Fifth City Commons — Chicago affordable housing
3155 West Fifth Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612Preservation of Affordable Housing
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The pin dates the grand-opening celebration January 28, 2025, but that is the date of the Chicago Business Journal preview. Block Club and POAH^[5][6] report the ribbon-cutting on Thursday, January 30, 2025 (POAH release dated January 30, 2025). Residents moved in from mid-December 2024. Earlier coverage (July 2023) expected completion in mid-2024.
Fifth City Commons contains 43 affordable apartments in East Garfield Park, with one-, two- and three-bedroom homes and Passive House construction. [2] POAH announced the grand-opening celebration on January 28, 2025.
$38M
Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk
Boom XB-1 Breaks the Sound Barrier, the First Independent Supersonic Jet
Mojave Air & Space Port, General Petroleum Road, Mojave, Kern County, California, United StatesBoom Supersonic
Starts 01/28/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins80% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 80%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.8 years ago
Boom: "The successful first supersonic flight of Boom's demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, took place on January 28 2025 at the Mojave Air & Space Port"; CBS News^[3], ABC7^[4]/CNN and Boom all date it to 28 January 2025.
Boom's XB-1 reached Mach 1.122 at 35,290 feet over the Mojave Desert on 28 January 2025, the first supersonic flight by an independently developed jet and, in Boom's words, the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde's retirement.