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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Clarendon Court Apartments
4500 N CLARENDON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft 
Highest 45%
| 736 tons 
Lowest 42%
|
|
Hilliard Homes Phase II Limited Partnership
2030 S State St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,158 tons
Highest 40%
|
|
Metropolis Condominium Association
8 W Monroe St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,468 tons
Highest 32%
|
|
Old Republic Building
301 - 317 N Michigan Ave
| Office | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,481 tons
Highest 32%
|
|
Two River Place
720 N Larrabee St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,751 tons
Highest 27%
|
|
essex inn
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800 s michigan ave
| Hotel | 6.7 kg/sqft | 747 tons |
|
Midwest Apartments
6 N Hamlin Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,547 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
Noble Square Cooperative
1165 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,899 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
LaSalle Terrace Condominium Association
1540 N LaSalle St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 1,005 tons
Highest 45%
|
|
211 213 E DELAWARE PL
211 213 E DELAWARE PL
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 382 tons
Lowest 15%
|
|
Lake Grove Village Bldg 1
3500 S LAKE PARK AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 3,133 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
4645 W BELMONT AVE
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4645 W BELMONT AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft | 512 tons |
|
300 South Riverside Plaza
300 S Riverside Plz
| Office | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 8,174 tons
Highest 3%
|
|
1K Fulton
1000 W Fulton St
| Office | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 3,796 tons
Highest 10%
|
|
1344 N DEARBORN ST
1344 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 559 tons
Lowest 31%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data