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Vol. 40, No. 28
July 16, 2025
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The Cycle Brookfield Criterium is shifting into gear
Indivisible talks effects of reconciliation bill in Brookfield
President Chris Valadez says a new route will highlight Burlington Boulevard businesses By TRENT BROWN
Rep. Sean Casten and state Rep. La Shawn Ford decried Trump’s big bill
Staff Reporter
It’s July, which means school is out, the sun is bright and temperatures are hot. And in Brookfield, it means a full day of professional bicycle racing is just over the horizon. The third annual Cycle Brookfield Criterium, part of the 10-day Chicago Grit series across Chicagoland, is coming to town next Wednesday, July 23. “The biggest change that we’re going through is, first and foremost, the course change. Due to the construction that’s on Grand Boulevard, currently still underway, the previous course that we used in the two years prior … was no longer available to us,” Chris Valadez, the president of Cycle Brookfield, told the Landmark.
By TRENT BROWN Staff Reporter
ERICA BENSON
See CYCLE on page 8
Pro women racers participate in the Cycle Brookfield Criterium in 2024.
Members of the progressive advocacy group Indivisible took to the Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library on Wednesday, July 9, to hear Rep. Sean Casten and state Rep. La Shawn Ford speak out against President Donald Trump’s reconciliation bill, often dubbed the “big, beautiful bill,” which he signed into law on July 4. “I was on [W]TTW yesterday, and they asked me, ‘Are there any good parts of the bill?’ and I said, ‘You’re sitting there. Someone’s serving See INDIVISIBLE on page 10
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