St. Jude's

OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois and UICOMP will end their affiliation with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in a major change for Peoria's regional destination healthcare provider.

A team of almost 200 runners, about half of them from Central Illinois, undertake a grueling run for the cause of childhood cancer research this week.

Streets in portions of downtown Peoria will close Saturday afternoon as the St. Jude Runners return from Memphis. The first wave of runners is expected to…