The Landmark, December 3, 2025
Holiday Stroll
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Riverside’s annual Holiday Stroll PAGE 17
A fire breather during the Brookfield Holiday Celebration last year. PHOTO BY TODD BANNOR
Brookfield to deliver on joyful season’s greetings Annual holiday celebration returns along village’s business districts Dec. 6
By JACKIE PISANO
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Contributing Reporter
rookfield’s beloved Holiday Celebration — the village’s annual Christmastime event uniting residents, business owners and village officials in yuletide joy — is back to kick off the holiday season this weekend. Co-sponsored by the village and Brookfield’s Chamber of Commerce, this year’s Holiday Celebration will be held Saturday, Dec. 6 from 2 to 6 p.m. along the Grand Boulevard and Broadway Avenue business corridors, with festive stops in between, including Brookfield Village Hall and Historic Grossdale Station. Throughout the afternoon, guests are welcome to park for free in the village’s business districts, stroll
on foot or hop aboard a courtesy trolley, which will run continuously among six stops: Brookfield Village Hall (8820 Brookfield Ave.), The Shop Salon & Style House (3735 Grand Boulevard), the Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Public Library (3541 Park Ave.), the 9100 block of Broadway Avenue, S.E. Gross Middle School (9235 Broadway Ave.) and the 3700 block of Grand Boulevard. Bob Uphues, communications and marketing manager for the Village of Brookfield, says the event — now several decades in existence — is just one of the village’s many ways in which it showcases prioritizing providing locals with an old-fashioned, hometown-feel event to start the holiday season off on the right foot. See BROOKFIELD on page 13