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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
One North State
🕰️
1 N State St
| Office | 6.5 kg/sqft  | 5,369 tons |
|
10 S LaSalle St
10 S LaSalle St
| Office | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 5,709 tons
Highest 6%
|
|
7947 S SOUTH CHICAGO AVE
🕰️
7947 S SOUTH CHICAGO AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.5 kg/sqft | 397 tons  |
|
Prudential Plaza
🚩
130 E Randolph St
| Office | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 17,965 tons #20 Highest
|
|
123 N Wacker
123 N Wacker
| Office | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 3,615 tons
Highest 10%
|
|
111 West Jackson
111 W Jackson Blvd
| Office | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 4,365 tons
Highest 8%
|
|
401 N Michigan Ave
401 N Michigan Ave
| Office | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 6,730 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
Michigan Plaza
🚩
205 N Michigan Ave
| Office | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 14,620 tons #35 Highest
|
|
333 W Wacker
333 W Wacker Dr
| Office | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 6,608 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
Hubbard HS -CPS
(CPS)
6200 S Hamlin Ave
| K-12 School | 6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
| 1,411 tons
Highest 34%
|
|
309 W 23RD ST
🕰️
309 W 23RD ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.4 kg/sqft | 336 tons |
|
6445 W Strong Street
6445 W Strong Street
| K-12 School | 6.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 49%
| 373 tons
Lowest 14%
|
|
1135 W SHERIDAN RD
1135 W SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 49%
| 640 tons
Lowest 36%
|
|
Oriole Park Elementary School
5424 N Oketo Avenue
| K-12 School | 6.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 49%
| 492 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
MRR 619 S LaSalle LLC
🕰️
619 S LaSalle
| Multifamily Housing | 6.4 kg/sqft | 608 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data