10,000 – \u00a0runners in 2016 who ran for charity<\/p>\n

$18.7 million – money raised by charity runners\u00a0in 2016<\/p>\n

$150 million – total dollars raised for charity since 2002<\/p>\n

170 – charities people ran to support in 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

1,637 – runner registered to run for Team World Vision, making it the charity with the most participants in 2016. (Team RMHC was second with 683)<\/p>\n

1,200 – volunteers who work to make the Abbott Health & Fitness Expo packet pick up happen<\/p>\n

10,917 – volunteers who work on race day<\/p>\n

3:45 – hour in the morning that check-in begins for the first volunteers<\/p>\n

160 – golf carts in use on the day of the marathon<\/p>\n

60,000 feet – length\u00a0of fencing around Grant Park in place for the event.<\/p>\n

224 – hours required for set up of the marathon<\/p>\n

70 – hours it takes to break everything down<\/p>\n

1,000 – radios used to communicate during race day<\/p>\n

4 – number of times the world record has been set at the Chicago Marathon<\/p>\n

2:09:25 – time it took 2016 men’s marathon winner Dickson Chumba of Kenya to complete the course.<\/p>\n

2:23:33 – Florence Kiplagat’s winning time for the women in 2016<\/p>\n

6:30 – the time at which the course closes (while marathons may continue, road reopen and official timing stops)<\/p>\n

$100,000 – prize money awarded to winners of the men’s and women’s divisions<\/p>\n

39 – years the marathon has been run – it started in 1977 as the\u00a0Mayor Daley Marathon in honor of late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley<\/p>\n

$5 – entry fee for the marathon in 1977<\/p>\n

Source: Bank of America Chicago Marathon<\/em><\/p>\n

Good luck to all runners!<\/p>\n