Building Fun Facts

The length of cable used in the hospital equals 661 miles. That's the distance from Chicago to Macon, Georgia.

If laid end to end, the length of pipes reaches 197 miles and would stretch from Chicago to Bloomington, Indiana.

The hospital uses 52,000 lights.

Nine thousand cubic yards of concrete was used to build the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. That’s enough to fill more than three Olympic-size swimming pools.

Chicago Comer Children's Hospital has 889 doors.

The hospital has 39,000 square feet of glass--156 times more glass than the average home.

Four thousand gallons of paint were used inside the hospital. That's enough paint to cover 1,600,000 square feet.

There are 89 showers, 132 toilets and 292 sinks.

The amount of steel used to build Chicago Comer Children's Hospital weighs 1,431 tons. That equals the weight of 204 male African elephants, which can weigh up to 7 tons each.