Register now to save your spot at this popular event or become an official sponsor of our Chicago Luncheon.

Sponsoring a table is a great way to secure your own seat at the lunch and introduce your friends and colleagues to Acton’s mission. 

Here are this year's sponsorship opportunities:

Exclusive Underwriting event sponsorship ($10,000) benefits include:

• exclusive recognition as the Underwriting sponsor in our printed program, at the event, and on the event website.
• recognition as Underwriting sponsor in pre- and post- event emails to attendees.
• reserved premier seating for a table of ten (10), plus unlimited individual tickets

Founding Fathers event sponsorship ($5,000) benefits include:

• reserved premier seating for table of ten (10), plus unlimited individual tickets
• recognition in our printed program, at the event, and on the event website.

Lord Acton table sponsorship ($1250) benefits include:

• reserved premier seating for a table of ten (10)
• recognition in our printed program, at the event, and on the event website.

Liberty Circle table ($750) benefits include:

• reserved seating for a table of ten (10)

To reserve your table, register online or email events@acton.org or call 616.369.5716

Dr. John C. Pinheiro

Acton Institute

Director of Research

John C. Pinheiro (PhD, University of Tennessee) is Acton’s Director of Research and oversees the Journal of Markets and Morality, the institute’s book publications, academic grants and awards.

Previously, he was professor of history at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he founded the college's popular semester-in-Rome and Catholic Studies programs. His publications include academic and popular articles on the early American republic and American religious history. Prior to his professorship, he was assistant editor on the Presidential Series of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia.  Dr. Pinheiro's books include the award-winning Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War (Oxford, 2014) and Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations during the Mexican War (Praeger, 2007). In 2019 he published The American Experiment in Ordered Liberty for the Acton Institute.

Email us at events@acton.org or call Kayla Kaseska at 616-369-5716

EVENT: Chicago Luncheon 2025

DATE: May 8, 2025

LOCATION:

University Club of Chicago

76 East Monroe Street

Chicago, IL 60603

ROOM: Cathedral Room

 

SCHEDULE:

11:30 a.m. Registration Opens

12:00 p.m. Lunch & Program

1:00 p.m. Q&A

1:30 p.m. Event Ends

 

TICKETS:

• $10,000 Underwriting Sponsor (10+ seats)
• $5,000 Founding Fathers Sponsor (10+ seats)
• $1,250 Lord Acton Sponsor (10 seats) 
• $750 Liberty Circle Table (10 seats)
• $75 Individual Ticket
• $50 Student Ticket

 

DIRECTIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY CLUB OF CHICAGO

Rev. Robert A. Sirico

Acton Institute

President Emeritus and Co-Founder

Father Robert A. Sirico is the co-founder and president emeritus of the Acton Institute and the pastor emeritus of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish and Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A regular writer and commentator on religious, political, economic, and social issues, Rev. Sirico's contributions have been carried by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Washington Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, and BBC, among others. In his newest book The Economics of the Parables, he discusses the spiritual lessons contained in the parables of Jesus, about human action in the economic sphere. He holds dual American and Italian citizenship.

Kris Alan Mauren

Acton Institute

President and Co-Founder

Kris Mauren is co-founder and president of Acton Institute, an international educational and public policy organization based in Grand Rapids, Michigan with international affiliates in Rome, Italy and Buenos Aires, Argentina.  The Institute publishes scholarship and film and organizes educational seminars around the world for current and future religious leaders across denominations promoting an understanding of the ethical dimensions of the free market economy.  The Institute also works with business leaders, helping them to embrace their work as a worthy calling and to encourage their positive moral defense of a free society characterized by individual liberty and personal moral responsibility.  Since its inception in 1990, The Acton Institute has experienced tremendous growth and today employs more than 50 people with an annual budget of $12,000,000.