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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Schurz HS -CPS
(CPS)
3601 N Milwaukee Ave
| K-12 School | 6.7 kg/sqft 
Highest 45%
| 3,070 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
303 W Madison
303 W Madison St
| Office | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 2,309 tons
Highest 19%
|
|
Washington Franklin, LLC
309 W Washngton St
| Office | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 710 tons 
Lowest 41%
|
|
200 West Monroe
200 W Monroe
| Office | 6.7 kg/sqft
Highest 45%
| 4,734 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
5839 S HARLEM AVE
5839 S HARLEM AVE
| Senior Living Community | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 395 tons
Lowest 16%
|
|
3141 N Sheffield Ave
3141 N Sheffield Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 477 tons
Lowest 24%
|
|
9401 S STONY ISLAND AVE
9401 S STONY ISLAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 865 tons
Lowest 49%
|
|
904 W Washington Blvd
904 W Washington Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 449 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
110 W Huron St
110 W Huron St
| Hotel | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 785 tons
Lowest 45%
|
|
1550 N Wieland St
1550 N Wieland St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 385 tons
Lowest 15%
|
|
Moment Chicago
545 McClurg Ct
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 3,567 tons
Highest 10%
|
|
Sheridan Grande Condominium Association
4848 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 732 tons
Lowest 42%
|
|
Delmar Apartments
5042 N. Winthrop
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 390 tons
Lowest 16%
|
|
Beach Point Tower Condominium Association
5801 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 1,058 tons
Highest 43%
|
|
CICS St. Basil
1816 W Garfield Blvd
| K-12 School | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 376 tons
Lowest 15%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data