Not too far from the City of Brookfield sits a charming area known as the Village of Elm Grove. It's proximaty to Milwaukee, Wauwatosa, and Waukesha County lends to being recognized as a beautiful pocket of Waukesha County, and it's charm is spendid. My secretaries used to tell me that if I did not go through Elm Grove and stop at the Chocolate Swan that I should keep on going. I often think that it was kind of going to extremes that they were willing to take a stand against chocolate verses me. The chocolate always won out, whether it was dark chocolate, milk chocolate, banana nepolean, and dipped strawberries. I loved those ladies when they would get their "Care Packages" from me and go off into my kitchen to eat their new found spendor. "Tom, we put everything on your desk, go cold c... 06/12/2008

        STATISTICS  Population: 6,250 Property Tax: $26.24 Median Home Value: $511,000 Median Household Income: $402,169 Single Family Homes: 2,556 Area: 3.26 square miles.   The Village of Elm Grove, Wisconsin is he gateway city on the far east end of Waukesha county bordering Milwaukee County. The population is composed largely of empty nest and professional couples who enjoy travel, political activism, volunteerism and take a great deal of pride in their community. The "downtown" area of the Village has charming shops...a yarn shop, restaurants, bakery, grocery, florist, ice cream, nursery. The Village also has a number of professional offices and banks. Home to a convent and Catholic Church, the boulevards bloom with a colorful array of flowers and welcome visitors to the quaint sho... 06/15/2007