As of 2018, Brookfield is the 93rd busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 546 weekday boardings.

As of April 29, 2024, Brookfield is served by 25 inbound and 27 outbound trains (52 total) on Weekdays.

33 trains (16 inbound and 17 outbound) stop at Brookfield on Weekends and Holidays.

Brookfield station was originally built in 1889 as Grossdale station, when Samuel Eberly Gross, a Chicago lawyer, began selling building lots platted from farms and woodlands he had acquired along both sides of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad line.

Brookfield itself was originally known as "Grossdale," the name a request by Gross in return for the land used by the railroad.