Welcome to the Springfield St. Jude Website!  As you navigate our web, we hope you find the information you’re looking for to help us help the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital located in Memphis, Tennessee.  Click on the link to the right and you will be directed to the home page of this amazing organization!

Children everywhere, including children from Springfield and the surrounding area, have benefited from the state-of-the-art research and treatment offered by St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Each year St. Jude treats 4,600 patients, 70 patients from Central Illinois being treated  in Peoria, 800 since 1972.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a world-renowned center for the treatment and research of life threatening childhood diseases, such as cancer, sickle cell anemia, and pediatric AIDS. Since the Hospital’s founding in 1962, by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, it has treated more than 17,000 children from around the world. All children are treated regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. As we continue to strive for a cure, your dollars make this endeavor possible.

Events are taking place this spring and summer that will raise much needed funds  that will go directly to St. Jude. 

Thanks to all of our sponsors, runners, and generous contributors and all of those who supported Springfield St. Jude this past year.   

2009 Total:  $20,000.00

Pictured above are the participants in the 2009 Springfield to Peoria Run.  Each year our group has grown and we are grateful for their enthusiasm and their help in raising money for St. Jude!  The total amount raised this year was $20,000!!!  Many thanks to some of our sponsors, including: Gabriels' Salon, Second Glance Salon, Primo Designs, Representative Rich Brauer, City Clerk Cecilia Tumuty and PB PA Unit 5. 

Click on the links to the left or check out the Calendar of Events and get all the information you need to participate and "Help Save the Life of a Child." 

People from everywhere are getting involved to help children all over Central Illinois.  Please visit our friends at Fans of St. Jude.  There are more events listed there and you can help make a difference!