Keith Pekau didn’t sugarcoat it.
“I got shellacked,” he said.
The two-term mayor of Orland Park was beaten soundly 57.09% to 42.91% by former longtime trustee Jim Dodge in Cook County, according to the unofficial results from the county’s clerk’s office. Official numbers will come in the coming weeks after they are ratified. Absentee votes still need to be counted…