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 ...

Thumbing a collective nose at the weather, parades have drawn thousands for a myriad of celebrations for a century and more.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. (WKOW) -- The elephants of Circus World celebrate their jump into a relaxing retirement with one final parade on Saturday. The Big Top Parade returned to the streets of Baraboo with ...