April elections bring in new boards and councils in May.
For the first part of the month, area communities have been seeing new and familiar people raising their right hands, repeating after judges and other dignitaries, stating their names and promising to uphold the sanctity of their position.
The Southland communitiesâ boards are just settling in after all the April 6 votes were certified by the officials in Cook and Will Counties.
Here is a look at highlights of some of the area municipal races.
Orland Park
Mayor Keith Pekau and former Mayor Dan McLaughlin had a lively and heated election filled with mailers sent to residents seemingly on a daily basis.
Reply The gas station is proposed at 15925 W. 159th St., on the southeast corner of Gougar Road and 159th Street. (Shutterstock)
LOCKPORT, IL Plans for a Thornton s gas station will move forward after the Lockport City Council approved a concept plan for the business at its Wednesday meeting. The gas station is proposed at 15925 W. 159th St., on the southeast corner of Gougar Road and 159th Street.
The property is zoned C-3, highway commercial, and is 3.4 acres, and would include a 36,285-square-foot portion of the neighboring property to the south, council documents state.
The concept plans call for a 5,500-square-foot commercial building, as well as a separate truck drive, passenger vehicle fuel pumps, separate truck fuel pumps, canopies, septic field and detention basin.