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Del Valle won a citywide election to the post in 2007, becoming the first Latino elected to the Chicago City Clerk's office. As city clerk, del Valle's office is responsible for maintaining official city government records, distributing approximately 1.3 million vehicle stickers and residential parking permits, and issuing city business licenses.
The clerk is a citywide elected office, and is one of three city-wide elected officials in the City of Chicago, along with the Mayor and the Treasurer. The current city clerk is Anna Valencia. One former city clerk is more famous for his non-political activities: The late Baseball Hall of Famer Cap Anson served one term from 1905-1907.
James J. "Jim" Laski (born 1954) was the City Clerk of Chicago, Illinois from 1995–2006. The former congressional aid and city alderman resigned from the City Clerk's office following his indictment for obstruction of justice due to his involvement in the city's scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program.
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Showtime Cinemas (Chinese: 秀泰影城; pinyin: Xìutài Yǐngchéng) is a Taiwanese cinema chain and the second largest cinema chain in Taiwan. [1] Showtime Cinemas has 17 cinemas and 184 screens in Taiwan currently.
The theater was designed by Levy and Klein and was influenced by Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in New York City. Owned by a white business association in Chicago, and seating about 3,000 people, the theater was one of the first entertainment complexes available for black audiences, employing black staff members (other than the musical acts).
The building was named the 3-Penny Cinema in 1964. [2] It was known for playing second-run films and "midnight movies". [3] It was the first theater in Chicago to screen the pornographic film Deep Throat. The cinema continued to operate until it closed in 2006 due to taxes the owner owed to the City of Chicago. [2] [4]
The General Cinema Corporation was founded as a drive-in theater in 1935 by Philip Smith, who had previously owned a small chain of silent film theaters.Smith had chosen to open the chain after noticing the increasing sales of local Massachusetts theatres, and the introduction of films that were able to accommodate a synchronized sound and voice track into their reels.