BARABOO, Wis. - Tucked alongside the Baraboo River, beneath the big top sits hallowed ground to anyone who’s ever loved the circus. Opening day at Circus World brings thrills and some jitters. "It’s ...

"Make Baraboo Your Winter Quarters", inspired by the Ringling family's winter residence, will be held over four weekends in ...

Baraboo, Wisconsin, is affectionately known as “Circus City” because it’s home of the Ringling Brothers and it’s where they performed their first circus on May 19, 1884. Today, it’s still home to the ...

BARABOO – For nearly 110 years, the Al. Ringling Theatre, 136 Fourth Ave., has been a center of Baraboo’s entertainment world, and that’s saying something in a town that boasts a high-flying history ...

In some communities, a trio of elephants walking around downtown might provoke an emergency response. In Baraboo, it’s a sign of celebration. Crowds cheered and waved Saturday as scores of clowns, ...

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 ...

BARABOO - Lawn chairs and blankets were stashed along the streets of downtown Baraboo last Friday as the city prepared for its annual Big Top Parade the following day. In 1884, the Ringling Brothers ...

BARABOO — Let’s begin with the obvious, and most pressing, question: How in the name of Jumbo the Elephant (he’s real — look it up) did a south-central Wisconsin town of 12,000 become the circus ...

BARABOO - Charles Clayton-Jones can remember attending the Jerry Cottel circus in London (one of Europe's largest at the time in 1980) as an adolescent with his mother, Sally Ringling Clayton-Jones.