The Schlitz Great Circus Parade passes by the first Milwaukee Convention center being built on N. 6th Street in Milwaukee on ...

For the first time ever, Circus Vazquez, America's largest family-owned big top circus will be featured performers as part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, November 28. In their ...

The Great Circus Parade was staged 30 times in Milwaukee between 1963 and 2009. The Great Circus Parade was staged 30 times in Milwaukee between 1963 and 2009. It was known as Wisconsin's National ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Within minutes after the elephants and horses, lions and a rhinoceros were locked safely into their stalls, as the trapeze artists and sword swallowers took a chair to rest ...

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 ...

Ted Turner, the billionaire media mogul who died Wednesday, had ties to the Great Circus Parade in Wisconsin in the 1980s.

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 ...

A big top circus, the Rhododendron Festival and stage performances highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula. • The Flynn Creek Circus will host Field Arts & Events Hall’s third ...

NORTH ADAMS — Between Oct. 4 and 14, the circus is in town. That’s because husband and wife duo Carlo Pellegrini and Hilary Sweeney are putting on the Mill Town Circus, which will tell a historic ...