Facts:

• The Sears Tower is 1,454 feet high - 1,707 feet including twin antenna towers.The Skydeck is 1,353 feet above the ground.
• The lowest level of Sears Tower is 43 feet below the Franklin St. elevation.
• The combined weight of the building is 222,500 tons - that's 445,000,000 lbs.
• The cost of building the Sears Tower was in excess of $150 million.
• The Sears Tower, opened in 1973, took 3 years to build.
  The building has 4.5 million gross square feet of floor space.
• On a clear day, you can see four states - Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. Visibility from the Skydeck is approximately 40-50 miles. The average sway of the building is appox. 6 inches from true center.
• The Sears Tower has approximately 16,100 bronze-tinted windows.
• 6 roof-mounted robotic window washing machines clean all 16,100 windows.
• Sears Tower elevators operate as fast as 1,600 feet per minute - among the fastest in the world.
• The Sears Tower contains 2,000 miles of electrical cable.
• Approx. 43,000 miles of telephone cable runs through the building.
• The Sears Tower was designed for more than 12,000 occupants.
• Approximately 25,000 people enter the building each day.
• Approximately 1.5 million tourists visit the Skydeck each year.

For more information please visit Sears Tower Online.