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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
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2909 North Sheridan Condominium Homes
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2909 N. Sheridan Rd.
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft  | 1,394 tons |
|
345-355 N Canal St
345-355 N Canal St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 1,152 tons
Highest 40%
|
|
Whitechapel Apartments
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4900 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft | 838 tons  |
|
StMaryAngels_School
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1850 N Hermitage Ave
| K-12 School | 6.6 kg/sqft | 282 tons |
|
Parish_StMaryStaroftheSea
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6449 S. Kilbourn Ave.
| Other | 6.6 kg/sqft | 783 tons |
|
St Vincent de Paul Center
2145 N Halsted St
| Pre-school/Daycare | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 951 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
Adler Place
1629 S Prairie Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 2,543 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
Charles A Beckett Associates, LP
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400 E 41st St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft | 2,611 tons |
|
Senior Suites of Chatham
8300 S Cottage Grove Ave
| Senior Living Community | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 506 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
3130 N Lake Shore Dr
3130 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 1,565 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
Maple Pointe Apartments
150 W Maple St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 1,859 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
407 415 S DEARBORN ST
407 415 S DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 1,322 tons
Highest 36%
|
|
7001 7013 N SHERIDAN RD
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7001 7013 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 342 tons
Lowest 12%
|
|
2424 N CLARK ST
2424 N CLARK ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 428 tons
Lowest 19%
|
|
One East 15th Place
1529 S STATE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
| 1,247 tons
Highest 38%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data