Heartland Institute Holds Grand Opening for New Arlington Heights Library

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL―A conservative and libertarian free-market think tank that moved to Arlington Heights recently will open its new library this week.

The Heartland Institute will hold a public grand opening for the Michael Parry Mazur Library from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, at its headquarters, 3939 N. Wilke Road, according to a press release.

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Speakers at the event include Mayor Thomas Hayes, as well as the nonprofit institute's president, Joseph Bast, and executive editor, Diane Bast. John Mazur, the brother of the late presidential economist the library is named after, also will be on hand. The event is free, and people interested in attending can register at the institute's website.

The library features almost 10,000 books on economics, education, environment issues, health care policy and other topics that the Heartland institute has collected over the past three decades. Works by William F. Buckley, Whittaker Chambers, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand and other luminaries and intellectuals are included in the collection.

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Library hours will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, but visitors will not be able to check out books and other materials. The library's catalogue does have a searchable online database.

Anyone with questions about the library can contact new media specialist Donald Kendal at dkendal@heartland.org or 312-377-4000.

The Heartland Institute―which was started in 1984 in Chicago and moved to Arlington Heights in August 2015―works "to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems."