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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).
The United Center has also provided a Chicago home for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (last performance was 2016, and they permanently shut down on May 21, 2017) and Disney on Ice, which occur once per year; the Bulls and Blackhawks have a tradition of taking a two-week road trip when the circus is in town. [58]
Claude "Screwy" Maddox (born John Edward Moore; 1901 – June 21, 1958) [1] [2] was a Chicago mobster and head of the Circus Cafe Gang whose ranks included future Chicago mobsters Anthony "Tough Tony" Capezio, Vincenzo De Mora ("Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, one-time owner of the "Green Mill") and Antonino "Tony" "Joe Batters" Accardo.
Alice in Wonderland stage play from Chicago fuses circus elements for new PBS broadcast. MARK KENNEDY. December 14, 2023 at 11:04 AM.
A few other Showmen's Rests can be found, including one at Mount Olivet Cemetery, in Hugo, Oklahoma, where a winter circus home calls itself Circus City, USA.In Miami, Florida, the largest Showmen's Rest is at Southern Memorial Park, where large elephant and lion statues flank hundreds of markers commemorating circus greats and not-so-greats.
The Great Circus Parade is a parade of marching bands, circus wagons, clowns, performers, and animals. Between 1963 and 2009, it has been held 30 times in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a few times in Chicago and Baraboo, Wisconsin. [1] A fundraiser for the Circus World Museum, [2] the parade typically draws hundreds of thousands of attendees. [1]
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 ...
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