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Washington Park is a social center of the South Side and hosts many festivals in the summer, including Chicago's best organized cricket league and the terminus of the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic. It is also the host of the annual UniverSoul Circus which comes to the park each fall (its first performance at the park was 1996). The largest 16 ...
By 1997 the circus tour grew to 10 cities, 19 cities in 1999, 31 cities in 2000, and 32 cities in 2005. An Emmy Award -winning special featuring the circus debuted in 1998 on cable TV network HBO . A tour of South Africa , the first international destination, was completed in 2001.
Aesthetic International Circus [3] China Active 2023-present Al G. Barnes Circus: United States of America Defunct 1895–1938 Albert & Friends Instant Circus [4] [5] United Kingdom Aloft Circus Arts [6] United States of America 1941–present Amar Circus [7] India Antonio Franconi: Italy Defunct Archaos: France Active 1986–present
Alice in Wonderland stage play from Chicago fuses circus elements for new PBS broadcast. MARK KENNEDY. December 14, 2023 at 11:04 AM.
The Lakefront Outlook, a free weekly newspaper with a circulation of 12,000 that reports on the Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, won a George Polk Award, one of the most coveted honors in journalism, for its investigative reports about alderman Dorothy Tillman (3rd) and the Harold Washington Cultural Center. [10]
In October 1896 the Coliseum hosted the Barnum and Bailey Circus, the largest three-ring circus in the country. [1] College football teams immediately saw the feasibility of playing indoor games in the Coliseum, and four big games took place: University of Michigan vs. University of Chicago, Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1896; won by Chicago ...
Teatro ZinZanni was created by Norman Langill, [2] and was once described as "the Moulin Rouge meets Cirque du Soleil." [3] The show is a blend of European circus and cabaret [4] and American vaudeville performed in a Belgian spiegeltent (mirror tent).
The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."