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Baraboo is a city in Sauk County, Wisconsin, along the Baraboo River. The population was 10,771 at the time of the 2000 census. The city is located mostly within the Town of Baraboo.

Baraboo is home to Circus World Museum, the former headquarters and winter home of the Ringling Brothers circus and now the largest library of circus information in the US. This living museum has one of the foremost collections of circus carts, and hosts an annual parade of these artifacts through the streets of Baraboo every summer.

The Al Ringling Theater is an active landmark of the city's rich cultural history. This movie palace is on a grand scale, and is larger and more elaborate than one would normally ever find in a town the size of Baraboo, which speaks to the financial assistance of the Ringling family in having it built. The Al Ringling home still exists and is kept in good condition.

Baraboo is also home to the International Crane Foundation, the world's foremost organization dedicated to the study and conservation of the world's 15 species of crane . The Leopold Reserve is also nearby, and within the Baraboo vicinity.

Belle Case La Follette was born near Baraboo.

Together with surrounding communities (including West Baraboo and the Town of Baraboo), the Baraboo micropolitan area was, according to the 2000 census, home to about 15,000 people. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Sauk County (2000 population: 55,225). The Baraboo mSA is just northwest of the Madison metropolitan area, with which it forms the Census Bureau's Baraboo-Madison Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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