Four days, 465 miles, one goal: St. Jude supporters begin run to Illinois
Runners from more than two dozen communities depart St. Jude's Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis on the way to Peoria, Illinois, home of the first St. Jude affiliate clinic, on July 17. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The St. Jude Runs relay fundraiser is a tradition that dates back more than four decades and ends with a parade in Peoria, Illinois, featuring runners from Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis and three dozen other Midwestern cities.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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