Based in Chicago, Kerasotes Showplace Theatres, LLC was the sixth-largest movie-theatre company in North America which had some 957 screens in 95 locations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, and Wisconsin at one point.

[1] The company was founded in 1909, when Gus Kerasotes, a Greek immigrant, opened a storefront nickelodeon movie theatre in Springfield, Illinois.

[citation needed] The chain undertook a major expansion program during the 1990s and 2000s adding several hundred screens to the circuit.

[citation needed] In January 2008, Kerasotes acquired AGT Enterprise's Star Cinema brand.

It operated six theaters located in the Seaport District in Boston, Chicago's South Loop, the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park, Mountain View, California, Santa Clara, California at Westfield Valley Fair,[6] and in the Harmon Meadow development in Secaucus, New Jersey.