Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
69% of Chicago's emissions come from buildings, making
building emissions our biggest challenge and our biggest opportunity as a city
to tackle climate change. At Electrify Chicago, we showcase building performance using
publicly available data supplemented by community-submitted photographs and building
owners.
Start by looking at Chicago's buildings with the highest greenhouse gas intensity i.e. emissions per square foot. Large, efficient, buildings can perform much better than very inefficient small buildings on this metric.
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Chicago Buildings by Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Note: Data includes large Chicago buildings with data from 2022, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Note: This data only includes buildings whose emissions are reported
under the
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Ordinance. According to the City “As of 2016,
this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than
50,000 square feet.” This dataset is also then filtered to only buildings with
reported emissions > 1,000 metric tons CO2 equivalent.
The latest year of data is from 2022, but we update the site regularly when new data is available, and some buildings may have failed to report that year, and only have older data available.
| Property Name / address | Primary Property Type |
Greenhouse Gas Intensity (kg CO2 eq./sqft) |
Total Greenhouse Emissions (metric tons CO2 eq.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2825 S HALSTED
2825 S HALSTED
| Senior Living Community | 6.8 kg/sqft 
Highest 43%
| 475 tons 
Lowest 24%
|
|
Senior Suites of South Shore
2355 E 67TH ST
| Senior Living Community | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 483 tons
Lowest 25%
|
|
3244 W 59TH ST
3244 W 59TH ST
| Senior Living Community | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 410 tons
Lowest 18%
|
|
1544 1554 N STATE PKWY
1544 1554 N STATE PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 705 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
1169 S PLYMOUTH CT
1169 S PLYMOUTH CT
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 814 tons
Lowest 47%
|
|
1246 1248 W PRATT BLVD
1246 1248 W PRATT BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 448 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
Commonwealth Apartments
2751 2765 N PINE GROVE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 745 tons
Lowest 43%
|
|
429 431 W ROSCOE ST
429 431 W ROSCOE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 374 tons
Lowest 14%
|
|
536 552 W ADDISON ST
536 552 W ADDISON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 429 tons
Lowest 19%
|
|
2700 2714 N SPAULDING AVE
2700 2714 N SPAULDING AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 340 tons
Lowest 11%
|
|
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W Lake St
| Office | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 2,966 tons
Highest 14%
|
|
225 W Washington
225 W Washington St
| Office | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 3,607 tons
Highest 10%
|
|
Hotel Sax Chicago
333 N Dearborn
| Hotel | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 1,517 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
1935 S Wabash Ave
1935 S Wabash Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,357 tons
Highest 35%
|
|
1550 N CLARK ST
1550 N CLARK ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 783 tons
Lowest 45%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data