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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

celebration, scheduled for July 1-4. They are also trying to secure additional funding for the event. The Sauk County Arts, Humanities and Historic Preservation committee approved the transfer of ...

MILWAUKEE - This year's Great Circus Parade was bittersweet for Carolyn Tyler, whose earliest childhood memory is of watching the clowns and restored antique circus wagons wind through downtown ...