[2] The School was founded by a small group of Northwestern University alumni in March 1992.
The Feltre School educates adults in English grammar, composition, public speaking, philosophy, and the humanities.
[3][4][5] The name and philosophy for the school was inspired by the work of the fifteenth-century Italian educator Vittorino da Feltre.
[3] The Feltre School resides in one of the few remaining turn-of-the-century brick buildings in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.
The building was originally built in 1905 as the Chicago Deaconesses' Home[6] and had become commercial property by the time The Feltre School purchased it in 1998.