Jackie Joyner-Kersee Community Center expanding to provide more services in East St. Louis. ... It will also boast new fields for baseball, football and soccer and a wrestling center.

“It inspires me, motivates me, you know, to keep doing what I'm doing,” Joyner-Kersee said. "The miracle on 25th Street, the house that Jackie built is now no longer just a house.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a six-time Olympic medalist, is a beacon of hope for the youth of East St. Louis through her JJK Foundation.

As a child growing up in East St. Louis during the 1970s, Olympian Jackie Joyner-­Kersee didn’t know how far her talents would take her—but the local community center was her key to ...

Six-time Olympic Medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee graced the stage at the Connecticut Convention Center to talk about the importance of equity at the 28th “In the Company of Women Luncheon ...

Jackie Joyner-Kersee smiles during a question-and-answer panel with regional student athletes at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Community Center in East St. Louis, Ill. on April 12, 2024, during in the ...

Jackie Joyner-Kersee dominated in the heptathlon Olympic event in the 1980s and ’90s. ... coach and run a community center, ... College Football. College Sports. Copa America. Copa del Rey.

November 9, 2023. Long before she was crowned by Sports Illustrated as the greatest woman athlete of all time, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a kid in East St. Louis, Illinois, looking for a community. She ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) — Six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee will serve as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s commencement speaker Saturday, May 13, at 9:30 a.m. in ...