CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's a big party under the big top! UniverSoul Circus returns to Chicago's Washington Park for its 25th Anniversary. UniverSoul Circus has captured the hearts and imaginations of ...

While telling me about the three-day extravaganza called the Chicago Circus & Performing Arts Festival that is taking place this weekend on the West Side, Amancay Kugler remembered her first circus.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater will present the world-famous Circus Abyssinia on Navy Pier this summer for a limited engagement beginning July 10. Check out photos and video highlights from the show!

Kaitlyn Andrews, one of the founders of BIPOC Circus Alliance Midwest, caught in midair action. Credit: Sarah Joyce The BIPOC Circus Alliance Midwest, a thriving performance troupe in Chicago, played ...

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The Actors Gymnasium will present CIRCUS QUIXOTIC, an original circus theatre production adapted and directed by David and Kerry Catlin, with circus choreography by Artistic Director Sylvia ...

“We used to have a rhino on Ringling,” Jeff Jenkins says. This was back when he was a young clown in the Greatest Show on Earth. The rhino would charge fullspeed into its pen backstage the moment the ...

Dania and David Maas perform at Navy Pier. Note: Windy City Circus has cancelled its 10-day engagement at Navy Pier. Founder David Maas said, “We are incredibly saddened to report that in this economy ...

“Skyrocket,” an individual who dives 80 ft., his clothes flaming, into a little tank of water—”Candy” Hammer and his Congress of Wild West Riders of the World — the Van de Velde Family, “Greatest ...