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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Wicker Park Commons 130910
🕰️
1279 N. Milwaukee Avenue
| Other - Mall | 17.5 kg/sqft  | 918 tons |
|
Thorek Memorial Hospital
850 W Irving Park Rd
| Hospital (General Medical & Surgical) | 17.4 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
| 3,564 tons
Highest 10%
|
|
Chicago-Downtown/Lakefront Embassy Suite
🕰️
511 North Columbus Drive
| Hotel | 17.4 kg/sqft | 7,424 tons |
|
The MGI - MARS Global Services
🕰️
930 W Evergreen Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
| Office | 17.4 kg/sqft | 1,308 tons |
|
Standard Club of Chicago
🕰️
320 South Plymouth Court
| Social/Meeting Hall | 17.4 kg/sqft | 2,861 tons |
|
Ford City Mall - AMC Theater
7601 S Cicero Ave
| Movie Theater | 17.3 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
| 1,259 tons
Highest 38%
|
|
6130 N SHERIDAN RD
6130 N SHERIDAN RD
| Other - Specialty Hospital | 17.3 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
| 1,394 tons
Highest 34%
|
|
Robert J Stein Institute of Forensic Medicine
2121 W Harrison St
| Other - Public Services | 17.2 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
| 1,364 tons
Highest 35%
|
|
Block 37 (Retail)
🕰️
108 North State Street
| Enclosed Mall | 17.1 kg/sqft | 7,331 tons |
|
Kent Chemical Laboratory
1020 - 1024 E 58th St
| Laboratory | 17.0 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
| 1,018 tons
Highest 44%
|
|
U.S. Cellular Plaza - 8410 _ Goby LLC
8410 W Bryn Mawr Ave
| Office | 17.0 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
| 3,619 tons
Highest 10%
|
|
CLI
🕰️
5841 S Maryland Ave
| Laboratory | 16.9 kg/sqft | 2,858 tons |
|
St Bernard Hospital
326 West 64th St
| Hospital (General Medical & Surgical) | 16.9 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
| 5,971 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
Chalet Living and Rehab
🕰️
7350 7352 N SHERIDAN RD
| Senior Living Community | 16.9 kg/sqft | 1,136 tons |
|
Lakeview Medical Campus LLC
1333 W Belmont Ave
| Medical Office | 16.9 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
| 902 tons
Highest 49%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data