Imagine the streets of Milwaukee filled with gold-leafed wagons, enthusiastic clowns and performers, wild animals, barkers and thousands of onlookers. You may say ‘that sounds like a circus,’ and you ...

Jul. 24—PERU — A year ago, downtown Peru looked perfectly normal after the Peru Circus City Festival was forced to cancel due to the pandemic. But on Saturday, animal wagons, jugglers, clowns and ...

The Great Circus Parade is back. Well, on television, anyway. Milwaukee PBS will premiere the documentary "Remembering the Great Circus Parade" at 7 p.m. Feb. 29 on WMVS-TV (Channel 10). Launched in ...

BARABOO, Wis. -- After more than a decade helping to organize the Big Top Parade as executive director of Circus World, Scott O’Donnell will lead this year’s event as grand marshal. Last fall ...

“Howda do! Guess who?” read the large banner depicting the pyramids and sphinx draped over the side of a full-grown elephant walking down Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs in 1937. Atop the pachyderm ...

In 1982, Mayor Henry Maier unveiled plans for a City of Festivals Parade, with a goal of making Milwaukee the Midwest's "parade city." The first parade, designed to replace the defunct Great Circus ...

BARABOO, Wis. -- Circus World's elephants will be making their last-ever appearance during Baraboo's Big Top Parade this summer, and this time, they'll serve as the parade's grand marshals. This ...

When Kelly and Viola burst through the red curtains at Circus World at the end of the summer, it will mark the end of an era. The two elephants, performers at the Big Top in Baraboo, Wis., are ...

When circuses starting making their way to Dayton in the 1800s, they quickly became a major spectacle. We went back into the archives to see what the circuses were like throughout history and the ...

Fifty brightly-colored circus wagons again will roll through Milwaukee's streets to the delight of the crowds after local parade promoters and Circus World Museum announced Thursday the 30th Great ...

My father, James Neumann, is wondering if you might be able to answer this question that has puzzled him for years. His great-grandfather Casper Ringelstein had a house on Roosevelt Avenue, south of ...