High demand to get into the race — especially from international runners — has led to longer visits to Chicago for the event and more money spent, as I profiled in this week's Crain's.
Here's a numerical breakdown of this year's field:
132 — number of countries represented, up from 129 last year and 115 in 2012. Bank of America's post-race survey shows that 43 percent of runners traveled to the race by airplane, up from 36 percent two years ago.
10,544 — number of runners from outside the U.S., or about 23 percent of the field. International participation is up by 3 percent over last year and 44 percent over 2012. Last year's out-of-town runners stayed in Chicago for an average of 3.8 days, up from an average of 3.4 days in 2011.
39.5 — average age of male runners, up slightly from last year (39.2). The 40-to-44-year-old age range is most popular among men (4,067 runners); the 30-to-34-year-old range was most common in 2013. Men comprise 54.3 percent of the field, down from 55.1 percent last year.
35.6 — average age of female runners, up slightly from last year (35.3). The 25-to-29-year-old age range is most popular among women (4,395 runners), the same as the 2013 race.
4 — number of runners age 80 or older. There were six last year.
381 — number of runners age 19 or younger, down from 405 last year.
56,000 — number of people who entered the lottery to get a spot in the race. About 26,000 were denied a race bib.
195 — number of charity "teams" in the race, a 39 percent increase from last year. Running for a charity was one of three ways to guarantee a spot in the race (besides time qualifiers and those who have run the event five or more times in the past decade) under the new lottery selection format, but the fundraising bar to clear this year was twice as high at $1,500. Charity runners personally are on the hook for that minimum regardless of how much money they raise.
55 — number of wheelchair participants in the field, down from 69 last year.
38,879 — number of people who finished the race last year, the highest total in the race's 36-year history.
Top five states by participation:
1. Illinois — 17,317 (down 7 percent year-over-year and the fewest from Illinois since 2006)
2. California — 1,484 (the second-most from California since 2002, behind only the 2012 total)
3. New York — 1,343
4. Indiana — 1,332 (down 2 percent year-over-year and the fewest from the state since 2002, the oldest data available)
5. Michigan — 1,104 (down 7 percent year-over-year and the fewest from the state since 2002, the oldest data available)
Top five Chicago suburbs by participation (virtually the same as the 2013 race):
1. Naperville — 423
2. Evanston — 335
3. Arlington Heights — 248
4. Oak Park — 243
5. Aurora — 219
Top five cities outside Illinois by participation:
1. New York — 755
2. Mexico City — 717
3. Atlanta — 256
4. Houston — 250
5. Brooklyn, New York — 249
The top three are the same as in 2013, but Houston and Brooklyn replace Charlotte, North Carolina, and Valparaiso, Indiana, in the fourth and fifth spots.
Top five foreign countries by participation:
1. Mexico — 2,280
2. Canada — 1,189 (the fewest from the country since 2010)
3. United Kingdom — 613
4. Brazil — 493
5. Japan — 423 (A 60 percent increase from 2012. Interestingly, visits to Chicago from Japan dropped by nearly a quarter last year to 104,000, though Chicago tourism officials said visits from the country in 2012 experienced an unusual spike.)
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