Circus World’s CEO Steve Freese tells me details are still being worked out for a Parade in Baraboo, WI.  during the Christmas holidays. The huge extravaganza in Milwaukee next year is scheduled for July 12th with over 50 of the Museum’s wagons being taken to Milwaukee for the huge Great Circus Parade.

To learn more about the Circus World Museum and their Fantastic Circus Archives and Research Library plus the largest Circus Wagon collection in the world, go to http://circusworld.wisconsinhistory.org/ or contact them at: Address

Circus World Museum
550 Water St
Baraboo, WI 53913

Phone & Fax:
608-356-8341 (phone)
866-693-1500 (toll-free)

 Circus World Museum’s governing office, Historic Sites Foundation, Inc., filed a complaint seeking $387,000 from the city of Chicago in Sauk County Circuit Court. In the lawsuit, the Foundation stated that the circus parade contract with Chicago, signed in January by former Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne and Foundation President Clark Wilkinson, provided that Circus World Museum would be entitled to all the parade fee if Chicago prevented the Foundation from conducting the parade. It noted that Chicago was to pay $150,000 of the total $387,000 parade fee within 15 days of the contract signing on Jan. 19, a like amount on March 1, and a final payment of $87,000 due June 7. The complaint said Chicago did not make any of the payments, and refused to discuss the parade route and assembly place. The complaint sought the full $387,000 in a first claim, and $221,007.40 in a second, alternative claim to recover cost of preparing the parade, subcontracting parade participants, and liability “arising from the termination of subcontracts.” It stated that the Foundation demanded the $221,007.40 from Chicago but the city refused to pay.