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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
CICS Loomis
9535 S Loomis St
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft 
Lowest 46%
| 324 tons
Lowest 10%
|
|
Catholic Charities Mathew Manor
271 N Albany Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 327 tons
Lowest 10%
|
|
Suder Campus Montessori -CPS
(CPS)
2022 W Washington Blvd
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 445 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
May Elementary Community Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
512 S Lavergne Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft | 678 tons |
|
Fulton Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5300 S Hermitage Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft | 595 tons |
|
Boone Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
6710 N Washtenaw Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 576 tons
Lowest 32%
|
|
Manierre Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1420 N Hudson Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft | 541 tons |
|
Madison Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7401 S Dorchester
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft | 422 tons |
|
Hitch Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5625 N Mcvicker Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 511 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
Excel-Woodlawn-CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7530 S SOUTH SHORE DR
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft | 457 tons |
|
Raffaello Condominium Association
🕰️
201 E Delaware St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft | 882 tons |
|
210 E Pearson
210 E Pearson
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 644 tons
Lowest 37%
|
|
Hattie Callner
(CHA)
855 W Aldine Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 711 tons
Lowest 41%
|
|
Broadway Armory
🕰️
5917 N Broadway Ave
| Other - Recreation | 6.2 kg/sqft | 967 tons  |
|
10 E. Delaware Condominium Association
10 E Delaware Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
| 2,293 tons
Highest 19%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data