Contractors have completed a more than $1 million renovation of a unique circus building which once housed train cars in Baraboo before the “greatest show on Earth” was taken across the country. The ...

At Circus World in Baraboo, the sights and sounds evoke the golden age of the circus. Its presence is loud and colorful. In the late 1800s, traveling performers rode ornate wagons through towns to ...

You can feel like a kid again at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Visitors are welcomed to a sprawling 64 acre experience that includes shows under the big top, musical performances and ...

When the silent film, “The Circus,” starring Charlie Chaplin, appears on the screen at the Al. Ringling Theatre March 16, the audience will have the chance to see a piece of Baraboo’s circus history.

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 ...

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 ...

Faced with declining ticket sales, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus -- after juggling the numbers as best it could -- is staging its final performance two weeks from today … which ...

BARABOO (WKOW) -- A long-time ringmaster at Circus World in Baraboo is preparing to leave the ring after 39 years. Though he doesn't swing from the ceiling or ride a unicycle, everyone who goes to a ...

BARABOO, Wis. — When Richard Bennett attended his first Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performance in 1949 in Sarasota, Fla., the 9-year-old boy could not have guessed just how much the ...

Freshman state Rep. Karen DeSanto spent years traveling the world with the Ringling Brothers. Now she’s representing a rural ...

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 ...