Quincy During its 21st annual fundraising, the St. Jude Quincy to Peoria Run has the potential to reach a significant milestone: $2 million in donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital since the run’s founding in 2005.
At 2:30 p.m. on Friday, approximately 85 runners and helpers will begin the 2025 race in Quincy. Until they reach Peoria on Saturday, they will run 135 miles in a 24-hour period in the relay manner. In order to help the children and families of St. Jude who are going through their most difficult times, they run in spite of the intense heat or the pouring rain.
To take part, each person must raise a minimum of $1,000.
$1,895,547 was raised during the run’s first 20 years. The donation from the previous year was $136,000. All of the money donated by runners and volunteers goes straight to St. Jude thanks to kind sponsors.
You may donate here to help the St. Jude Quincy to Peoria Run reach its $2 million target: https://stjuderuns.org/runs/satellite/quincyCome come on Friday to watch the runners off.
Timetable for Take-Off on Friday:
- Noon: Runner check-in begins at Parking Lot F, 405 Vermont
- About 1:30 p.m.: Runners from Hannibal, Mo., arrive in Quincy
- 2 p.m.: Send-off ceremony
- 2:30 p.m.: Runners line up on Fifth St. and depart, heading toward Maine St.
Concerning the Peoria to St. Jude Quincy Run
Established in 2005, the Quincy Run serves as a support event for the bigger St. Jude Memphis to Peoria Run. In 1982, the Memphis run got its start in Memphis, Tennessee, the location of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. One of several St. Jude satellite hospitals is located in Peoria.
Now, Quincy is one of 36 satellite runs from Illinois and Missouri that culminate in the yearly St. Jude Telethon at the Peoria Civic Center.
2011 saw the launch of Hannibal’s run extension.
Lifesaving cures, the dissemination of ground-breaking research, and the guarantee that families never have to pay for treatment, travel, accommodation, or food so they can concentrate on helping their children survive are all made possible by every step and every dollar.
About the Children’s Research Hospital at St. Jude
St. Jude, which was founded in 1962 by entertainer Danny Thomas because he believed that no child should die before their time, seeks to cure pediatric cancer and other devastating childhood illnesses.
The company transforms laboratory findings into life-saving medications and openly disseminates its discoveries to physicians and scientists around the world.
Since the hospital’s founding, the total childhood cancer survivor rate has increased from 20% to over 80% because to treatments created by St. Jude.
Doctors treating children throughout the world, including children in local communities, can get thousands of free consultations from St. Jude.
An estimated 89% of St. Jude’s annual expenses, which total close to $2 billion, come from kind donors and fundraising events like the St. Jude Runs.
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