PEORIA - Derrick Roberts just wants answers regarding the death of his brother, Shawaan M. Warr, earlier this year.

A Peoria County woman in her 80s is the 27th person to die here after being diagnosed with COVID-19, public health officials said Thursday.

PEORIA - A Peoria man was ordered held on $1.5 million bond for allegedly shooting a woman in the face last month.

MARRIAGESTazewell County* Jearl Barton, 50; Caroline Raychel, 53; both Washington.* Eric Benes, 22, Eureka; Francesca Riggins, 22, Peoria.* James Bremer, 30; Whitney Brown, 33; both Thompson's Station, Tenn.* Wyatt Cote, 37; Emily Bell, 31; both Washington.* Zachary Denniston, 22, Washington; Allison Flowers, 22, East Peoria.* Kobi Huff, 19; Caylee Clarkson, 17; both Creve Coeur.* Nathan Isenberg, 37, Germantown Hills; Hannah Toaddy, 30, Washington.* Robert Judge, 51; Jodi Smith, 52; both

Four months after the Tazewell County Board censured County Clerk John Ackerman for awarding controversial pay raises to his staff, board Chairman David Zimmerman referred to the issue as an "elephant in the room.