Articles tagged with: Illinois Illinois bans elephant acts! 23 August 2017 · 3 comments The Governor of Illinois has signed into law a ban on the use of elephants in circuses and other traveling exhibitions, effective January 1, 2018 Unbearable – Hell on wheels for bears touring the US 13 September 2013 · 15 comments For up to an hour a day, they are dressed up in clothes, muzzled and made to perform demeaning tricks – around 90% of their time is spent caged in tiny cells in a prison truck. This is life for a group of bears currently touring the US…