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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
MiCA
2733 W BELDEN AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.5 kg/sqft 
Highest 49%
| 1,342 tons
Highest 35%
|
|
International House
(UChicago)
1414 E 59th St
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 1,535 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
Shields Main-CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
4250 S Rockwell St
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft | 833 tons  |
|
Catholic Charities Tolton Manor
6345 S Stewart
| Multifamily Housing | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 454 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
Bouchet Elementary Acad -CPS
(CPS)
7355 S Jeffrey Blvd
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 925 tons
Highest 48%
|
|
Avalon Park Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
8045 S Kenwood Ave
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft | 568 tons |
|
Columbia Explorers Elementary Academy -CPS
(CPS)
4520 S Kedzie Ave
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 698 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
Sexton -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
6020 S Langely Ave
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft | 684 tons |
|
Richards Career Academy HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5009 S Laflin St
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft | 675 tons |
|
Linne Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3221 N Sacramento Ave
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 692 tons
Lowest 39%
|
|
Park Manor Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
7037 S Rhodes Ave
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 405 tons
Lowest 17%
|
|
Irving Elementary - CPS
(CPS)
749 S Oakley Blvd
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 357 tons
Lowest 13%
|
|
Hilliard Homes Phase I Limited Partnership
2031 S Clark St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 1,126 tons
Highest 41%
|
|
Lorraine Hansberry Senior Apartments
(CHA)
5670 W Lake St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 690 tons
Lowest 39%
|
|
Hyde Park Academy HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
6220 S Stony Island Ave
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft | 2,112 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data