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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Yards Forman Mills
🕰️
4520 S Damen Ave
| Retail Store | 6.3 kg/sqft  | 335 tons |
|
Crane Achievement Academy -CPS
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(CPS)
2245 W Jackson Blvd
| K-12 School | 6.3 kg/sqft | 2,633 tons  |
|
2930 N SHERIDAN RD
2930 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 1,529 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
Grandville Tower Condominiums
6166 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 1,219 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
222 E PEARSON ST
222 E PEARSON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 1,392 tons
Highest 34%
|
|
Lowell House
88 W Schiller St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 1,770 tons
Highest 26%
|
|
5301 5317 S HYDE PARK BLVD
5301 5317 S HYDE PARK BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 1,493 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
6748 6750 N ASHLAND AVE
6748 6750 N ASHLAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 374 tons
Lowest 14%
|
|
1200 W Pratt Blvd
1200 W Pratt Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 554 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
Times Square Apartments
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869 W BUENA AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft | 891 tons |
|
5316 5320 S DORCHESTER AVE
5316 5320 S DORCHESTER AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 385 tons
Lowest 16%
|
|
The Wyndham
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5230 5244 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft | 1,264 tons |
|
2756 2760 N PINE GROVE AVE
2756 2760 N PINE GROVE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 847 tons
Lowest 48%
|
|
820 S PARK TER
820 S PARK TER
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 989 tons
Highest 45%
|
|
125 E 21ST ST
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125 E 21ST ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft | 424 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data