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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Museum Tower Residences Condo Association
1335 S Prairie Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft 
Lowest 42%
| 2,191 tons 
Highest 21%
|
|
Zelda Ormes Senior Apartments
(CHA)
116 W Elm St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 963 tons
Highest 46%
|
|
Park Tower Condominium Association
5415 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 5,189 tons
Highest 6%
|
|
Harbor View Condo Association
1901 S Calumet Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 2,504 tons
Highest 18%
|
|
The Caravel
635 N Dearborn St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,263 tons
Highest 37%
|
|
3900 Lake Shore Drive Condominium Association
3900 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,559 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
Harbor Point
155 N Harbor Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 7,115 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
200 E. Delaware Condominium Association
200 E Delaware Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 2,036 tons
Highest 23%
|
|
1550 CA
1550 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 2,154 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
3920 N LAKE SHORE DR
3920 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 550 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
Kingsbury on the Park
653 N Kingsbury St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,662 tons
Highest 28%
|
|
1400 Lake Shore Drive Condominium Association
1400 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,971 tons
Highest 23%
|
|
Cornell Village
5201 S Cornell Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,727 tons
Highest 27%
|
|
Jefferson Tower CA
200 N Jefferson St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,359 tons
Highest 35%
|
|
6700 S KEATING AVE
6700 S KEATING AVE
| Senior Living Community | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 718 tons
Lowest 41%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data