The history of a Puerto Rican social club is barely of interest to Chicago’s Puerto Ricans, much less to passersby anxious to get back inside their million-dollar brownstones. Inside-and open by appointment only-a quaint museum chronicling the Congress’s history collects dust. The once-vibrant murals depicting Puerto Rico’s creative elite are faded and cracking, one tuck-point job away from oblivion. The Congress, founded at a time when the city’s now-affluent Wicker Park neighborhood was still a haven for drug dealers and gang members, stands as the last bastion of cultural diversity in the ward, though you’d never register it on a casual walk by. Tucked away on Chicago’s near North Side, the Puerto Rican Congress of Mutual Aid has held its ground at the same three-lot West North Avenue space for more than four decades.
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (USD $).She was appointed by Vice President Sara Duterte as her Spokesperson for the 2022 National Elections. She was also a Professor at the University of San Carlos College of Law. Prior to entering public service, she worked for Romulo Law practicing international arbitration and commercial litigation. She is the first woman President of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines Cebu, and the National Vice President of the League of Municipalities. She was also ranked the Top Performing Mayor in Central Visayas, ranking number 1 among all Municipal Mayors in the entire Region 7. In 2021, she was awarded the Presidential Lingkod Bayan Regional Award by the Civil Service Commission in its Search for Outstanding Government Workers. Under her leadership, Liloan has the distinction of being a four-time recipient of the highest audit rating given by the Commission on Audit, and it has received more than 40 good governance awards and citations from local and national award-giving bodies. Throughout the challenges of the pandemic and the super typhoon that recently devastated Cebu, she has led Liloan’s recovery and resurgence towards becoming the LGU with the highest growth rate in Cebu. Under her administration, Liloan now has one of the largest educational scholarship programs in the country, with yearround arts, culture, and sports tourism programs. Her transformational leadership has fostered Liloan’s development towards sustainability, livability, and innovation with aggressive infrastructure development and social protection programs earning awards for Liloan as the Top Model Municipality and Most Resilient Municipality in the Philippines. The Secretary of Tourism is the newly-reelected Mayor of Liloan, Cebu. She is a lawyer, having graduated from Ateneo Law. in 2022, and the youngest member of the Cabinet so far. Maria Esperanza Christina Garcia Frasco (born December 25, 1981) is the current Secretary of the Department of Tourism after being appointed by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Maria Esperanza Christina Garcia Frasco biography
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