WESTSIDE LOVE MAPS EXHIBITION
About this Event
WESTSIDE LOVE MAPS EXHIBITION
CAPSTONE CLIQUE × CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM
YOU’RE INVITED TO EXPERIENCE THE WESTSIDE LOVE MAP
What happens when a community comes together to document its own history?
Come experience the completed Westside Love Maps — a community-created archive celebrating the people, places, memories, and stories that make Chicago’s West Side home.
Join Capstone Clique and the Chicago History Museum for an evening of film, storytelling, community conversation, and connection as we celebrate the people and neighborhoods that helped build this living archive.
EXPERIENCE THE EXHIBITION
Explore the completed Westside Love Maps of North Lawndale, Garfield Park, and Austin and discover the stories, memories, landmarks, and community voices captured throughout the project.
Through photography, film, oral history, mapping, artifacts, and community storytelling, the Westside Love Maps brings neighborhood memory into the museum — creating space for residents and visitors to see, hear, and experience the West Side through the people who know it best.
WHAT TO EXPECT
🎬 Film & Storytelling
Experience stories from West Side residents, artists, and community members whose voices helped shape the archive.
🗺️ Explore the Westside Love Maps
Discover the people, places, memories, and moments mapped across North Lawndale, Garfield Park, and Austin.
💬 Community Conversation
Gather with neighbors, storytellers, artists, partners, and community members to reflect on what it means to document and preserve our collective history.
🤝🏿 Connection & Celebration
Come together to celebrate the people and communities whose stories make the West Side home.
COME EXPERIENCE THE STORIES.
The Westside Love Maps is more than a map.
It is a growing community archive — a collective record of the places we remember, the people who shaped us, the spaces where we gathered, and the stories we carry forward.
This exhibition is an invitation to see the West Side through the eyes of the people who live it, love it, remember it, and continue to shape its future.
Come celebrate the West Side.
Come experience the stories.
Come see what we created together.
EVENT DETAILS
September 30, 2026
5:00–8:00 PM
Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
RSVP REQUIRED
Presented by Capstone Clique × Chicago History Museum
We can't wait to celebrate with you.
Agenda
🕑: 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
West Side Love Maps: Opening Celebration
Host: Capstone Clique
Info: West Side Love Maps: Opening Celebration Public Opening Celebration
5:00 PM–6:00 PM
Public Arrival and Mix & Mingle
6:00 PM–6:05 PM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
6:05 PM–6:20 PM
Capstone Clique: Meet the Curators
6:20 PM–7:00 PM
Explore the West Side Love Maps Exhibition
7:00 PM–7:30 PM
West Side Love Maps Panel Conversation
7:30 PM–7:45 PM
Audience Q&A
7:45 PM–8:00 PM
Closing Remarks, Community Engagement and Departure
Throughout the evening, guests will have the opportunity to explore the exhibition, participate in interactive community mapping, contribute to the West Side Love Maps community response wall, and create a take-home button inspired by the places, people and memories they love.
Where is it happening?
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