Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, formerly Hild Regional Library, is one of two regional libraries in the Chicago Public Library system in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It was named for Conrad Sulzer, a 19th-century Swiss settler in what was then Lakeview Township. The library is located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood at 4455 N. Lincoln Ave. It is a full-service library and ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it has free Wi-Fi internet service.OverviewThe current building was designed in 1985 by the architectural firm of Hammond Beeby and Babka, now known as Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge, Inc. It utilizes a German neo-classical style inspired by the prominent German-American local culture and the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The same firm also designed the Harold Washington Library.Sulzer houses custom made furniture in a German mythological theme. It was a replacement for the Frederick H. Hild Regional Library, which now is home to a branch of the Old Town School of Folk Music. Alderman Eugene Schulter was instrumental in getting funding and the political support for the library. It was opened to the public in the fall of 1985.
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