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.
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ORLAND PARK, Ill. An Orland Park official s request to look into instituting a mask-wearing mandate was met with some resistance Monday, Dec. 7, during the Committee of the Whole (COTW) meeting held prior to the regularly scheduled Village Board meeting.
Trustee Dan Calandriello said he asked that the item be placed on the COTW agenda because of the recent increase in the number of positive COVID-19 cases in Orland Park.
Subscribe I was just thinking of ways we can help our community be safer, he said. As we know, Orland Park has a lot of visitors during the day in and out, bringing possibly COVID and then taking home COVID, and then us giving it to our other surrounding communities, including Tinley Park. Just recently, New Lenox implemented mask ordinances. I guess the key thing is to increase the indoor mask wearing, which will [help] our businesses.