Images: #TBT Gallery features clowns in the suburbs
Depending on your point of view, clowns can be either funny and entertaining or frightening and intimidating.
Clowns have been around in one form or another for centuries. We take a look back at some clowns out in the suburbs in the 1970s.
This was during an era when Bozo and Ronald McDonald became popular.
They wore white makeup, red noses and big funny shoes. They were taking part in parades, making animal balloons for children, visiting students at their school and performing in circuses.
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A July Fourth parade in 1972 in Hoffman Estates.
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A clown backdrop at a Jaycee carnival in Elk Grove Village.
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Ricky the Clown in December of 1975 in Buffalo Grove.
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A July Fourth parade in 1972 in Hoffman Estates.
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Clown Day in March 1975 in Prospect Heights.
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A clown takes part in the July Fourth parade in Hoffman Estates in 1972.
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A clown takes part in the July Fourth parade in Hoffman Estates in 1972.
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A clown smiles from a car in Arlington Heights in October of 1975.
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Clown Day in March 1975 in Prospect Heights.
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Kids are entertained in Prospect Heights during Clown Day in March 1975.
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In June of 1972 a worker gets a Jaycee carnival set up in Elk Grove Village.
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Ricky the Clown in Buffalo Grove in December of 1975.
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From a circus in Elk Grove Village in May of 1971.
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The circus visits the mall in Mount Prospect in July of 1972.
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The circus visits the mall in Mount Prospect in July of 1972.
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Sweeney the Clown visits kids in Rolling Meadows in August of 1972.
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