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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Lewis Elementary, Leslie -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1431 N Leamington Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft  | 870 tons  |
|
Gary Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3740 W 31st St
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 886 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
Curtis Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
32 E 115th St
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft | 696 tons |
|
Albany Park Multicultural Academy -CPS
(CPS)
4929 N Sawyer Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 700 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
Deneen Elementary, Charles S -CPS
(CPS)
7240 S Wabash Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 589 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Vaughn Occupational HS -CPS
(CPS)
4355 N Linder Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 337 tons
Lowest 11%
|
|
Finkl Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2332 S Western Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft | 481 tons |
|
Barry -CPS
(CPS)
2828 N Kilbourn Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 526 tons
Lowest 28%
|
|
Lawrence Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
9928 S Crandon Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 549 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
Ericson Scholastic Academy, Leif -CPS
(CPS)
3600 W 5th Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 495 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
Franklin Fine Arts Center -CPS
(CPS)
225 W Evergreen Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 355 tons
Lowest 13%
|
|
322 S Green St
322 S Green St
| Office | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 618 tons
Lowest 35%
|
|
Mann Park
🕰️
2949 E 131st St
| Other - Recreation | 6.7 kg/sqft | 344 tons |
|
1150 Condominium Association
1150 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,614 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
The 3600 Condominium Association
🚩
3600 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 5,650 tons
Highest 6%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data