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.