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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1336 1352 N SEDGWICK ST
1336 1352 N SEDGWICK ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft 
Lowest 48%
| 3,675 tons 
Highest 10%
|
|
4845 S WESTERN AVE
4845 S WESTERN AVE
| Senior Living Community | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 561 tons
Lowest 31%
|
|
1250 N LASALLE DR
1250 N LASALLE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 891 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
1945 W WILSON AVE
1945 W WILSON AVE
| Mixed Use Property | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 431 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
1415 W LUNT AVE
1415 W LUNT AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 263 tons
Lowest 6%
|
|
205 W Wacker
205 W Wacker Dr
| Office | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 1,943 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
4724 4730 S WOODLAWN AVE
4724 4730 S WOODLAWN AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 365 tons
Lowest 14%
|
|
Hartford Plaza
150 S Wacker Dr
| Office | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 8,073 tons
Highest 3%
|
|
225 W Wacker
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225 W Wacker Dr
| Office | 6.3 kg/sqft | 4,544 tons |
|
200 W Madison
200 W Madison
| Office | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 6,337 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
Three First National Plaza
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70 W Madison St
| Office | 6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
| 10,013 tons
Highest 2%
|
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1401 W ROOSEVELT RD
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1401 W ROOSEVELT RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.3 kg/sqft | 437 tons |
|
403 N Wabash
403 N Wabash
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 838 tons
Lowest 48%
|
|
Vanguard Lofts Condominium Association
1250 W Van Buren St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 730 tons
Lowest 42%
|
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Lavergne Courts
4938 W Quincy St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 904 tons
Highest 49%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data