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What do you love most about your neighborhood? When people think about your neighborhood, what would you like them to know? Join us for a special screening of Love Letter to the West Side (2024), a documentary sharing oral histories of West Siders that contends with silence and stereotypes about the city’s West Side. The film highlights the area’s historical and cultural contributions to the city as critical to understanding the whole of Chicago’s history.

Produced by the Capstone Clique, a group of culture and memory workers serving the West Side, this documentary is their attempt to preserve and share the vibrant stories of Chicago’s West Side and to “encourage all Chicagoans to visit and to learn more about the West Side (the best side), of Chicago.”

Complete your experience by participating in a special West Side-themed trivia contest and by adding your “love for the Westside” to an interactive map.

Free; RSVP required

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Lawndale community members clean up debris in their neighborhood Members of Lawndale neighborhood cleaning up debris on a street near South California Avenue, Chicago, September 10, 1975. ST-15003023-0003, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM
Leader of Conservative Vice Lord sitting outside pool room Outside of the Lawndale Pool Room, 3720 West 16th Street, Chicago, August 17, 1967. ST-80005078-0001, Chicago Sun-Times collection,, CHM
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a crowd Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a crowd at 3409 West Douglas Boulevard, Chicago, July 24, 1965. ST-10104099-0011, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at Stone Temple Baptist Church Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at Stone Temple Baptist Church, 3622 West Douglas Boulevard, Chicago, August 26, 1966. ST-17600438, Chicago Sun-Times collection, CHM

Capstone Clique
Capstone Clique

The Community Leadership Fellowship’s Capstone Clique is focused on historic preservation of the West Side of Chicago. Engaging their neighbors through an interactive video storytelling experience, their documentary project, Love Letter to The West Side documents and tells beloved stories of Chicago’s West Side through the lens of 14 prominent leaders all of whom originate from different areas “out West.” The premise of the film is to display shared affection and family connections they all have in relation to the West Side of Chicago.

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