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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 ...
The UniverSoul Circus is a single ring circus, established in 1994 by Cedric Walker, an African-American man who had a vision of creating a circus with a large percentage of people of color performing. He began searching for people from all around the world with incredible talents.
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
John Nicholas Ringling (May 31, 1866 – December 2, 1936) was an American entrepreneur who is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the modern circus.
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).
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 ...
The Kinetic Playground was a short-lived nightclub located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The club was opened on April 3, 1968, as the Electric Theater [ 1 ] by Aaron Russo and was located at 4812 N. Clark Street (NW corner of Clark and Lawrence).
Entrance to the Quadrange Club, on the campus of the University of Chicago Back of the club, showing a portion of the clay tennis courts. The Quadrangle Club is a membership club at the University of Chicago. It is located at 1155 East 57th Street (the southeast corner of 57th Street and University Avenue) in Chicago. It has a full-service ...