Starting 2025 at the Henry George School

If you’re concerned about problems of poverty, lack of opportunity, and declining quality of life in Chicago and America, and hoping for a better future, you should attend our Introducing Progress & Poverty session on Tuesday, January 14, 5:30PM.  Perhaps you already knew that these problems aren’t unique to our time, but were recognized in …

Has Illinois been able to reverse its worst-in-the-nation budget trends?

Video from Zoom Webinar Illinois has some of the nation’s top pension debt and decades of irresponsible budget-making. Another session of the General Assembly has come to a close. Were legislators able or willing to make progress in finally addressing these decades-old long-standing issues, or were they once again swept under the rug and put …

April 10 Tuesday 6 PM: How I made $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate: I $tole it from you

Successful land speculation is really a matter of capturing for yourself the gains that belong to the community.  George Menninger is one of many who have done it.  Far beyond any need to earn a living, George now spends some of his time explaining how the bad public policy he exploited not only made him …