NORMAL — For Cherie Valentine, family history and circus history are inseparable. "Dad started at the old YMCA downtown learning how to fly, and Mom went down to the YMCA to watch her dad play ...

Circus Juventas executive director Rob Dawson, right, and artistic director Rachel Butler-Norris smile in front of window displays of past Circus Juventas costumes on May 29, 2024.

Tibbals started creating the Howard Bros. Circus display — a three-quarter-inch-to-the-foot scale replica of the 1930s-era Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — in 1956, while he was a ...