RIVERSIDE-BROOKFIELD Remembering Devin Ekstam
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Vol. 40, No. 29
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July 23, 2025
Brookfield and Riverside diverge on 1% grocery tax
Former Riverside resident reaching new heights
Brookfield’s trustees approved a local tax while Riverside’s spoke against one By TRENT BROWN Staff Reporter
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Riverside-Brookfield High School graduate Tim Rann takes in the peak of Cotopaxi mountain from his vantage point at the summit of Volcán Rumiñahui in Ecuador. Climbing one mountain is literally and scale mountains within driving distance Tim Rann attempting to figuratively a tough thing to accomplish. of his family’s home in Quito, EcuaBut 52 in 52 weeks, in the relatively dor for ROMP, which stands for Range scale 52 South American unfamiliar environs of South America? of Motion Project. That organization, That’s what Tim Rann is planning, and launched by David Krupa, originally peaks in 52 weeks
By GREGG VOSS Contributing Reporter
for a good cause. Rann, a 2003 Riverside-Brookfield High School graduate, is attempting to
from Forest Park, helps ensure access See HEIGHTS on page 3
Riverside and Brookfield’s village boards are taking opposing stances on a local 1% tax on groceries for 2026 after Illinois decided last year to cut that tax at the state level. In Brookfield, the board approved the tax on July 14, but in Riverside, trustees July 17 directed staff not to draft an ordinance, opting to reconsider the tax next year for possible implementation in 2027. While the state has left it to local municipalities to impose the tax or let it sunset, it is not a new tax. Through the end of the year, Illinois will collect the tax and disburse the revenue to each town. Both villages have so far relied on See GROCERY on page 6
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