As a newer Brookfield resident, the town seal or logo is something I cherish and find incredibly unique. After getting our first letter from city government in 2021, I sliced the seal off the envelope & taped it on the ice box next to a picture of our son, my prized Wayne Gretzky ’98 holographic trading card, and some other top-tier-worthy snippets and memories.
Later, in 2023, I reached out to village hall regarding if anything like a Brookfield flag or decal was available to purchase. They never replied. I then chatted my neighborinos over a cold one in the alley, to find no one even knew what the aesthetically charming, old school + minimally radical new age town seal looked like, so I found the highest resolution image of it on the ol’ computer web and fabricated it onto a canvas flag through sublimation and some good ol’ tinkering in the woodshed with the Metallica cranking. I proudly fly this town logo on my weathered front porch, looking westbound yonder onto the beauty that Brookfield is on a daily basis.
All that said, I admit — just my opinion but, hey — I know the PEP Party does whatever the heck they want in their monopolistic or rather smugly arrogant, condescension-rooted takeover of Brookfield over the years-er-decades (read the room, it is time for some new faces, y’all), but how about we spend the $85K on moving along the lead pipe replacement (Lead, scientifically proven to be extremely no-no to human health-o) instead of making our town seal more like something in my Aunt Greta’s bathroom, that says in Papyrus font “Live Laugh La Grange Park?”
Let’s keep some sanctity of character in this lil’ slice of Paradise we call Brookfield, ya?
Your future mayor,
Paul Pagæsh
Brookfield