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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
North Park Village Apartments - Building H
5801 N Pulaski Rd - Bldg H
| Residential Care Facility | 6.0 kg/sqft 
Lowest 42%
| 1,664 tons 
Highest 28%
|
|
Kingsbury Center
350 W Hubbard St
| Office | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 933 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
8411 S HOLLAND RD
8411 S HOLLAND RD
| Wholesale Club/Supercenter | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 826 tons
Lowest 47%
|
|
Circle Park Apartments
1111 S ASHLAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 2,353 tons
Highest 19%
|
|
700 W BITTERSWEET PL
700 W BITTERSWEET PL
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 751 tons
Lowest 43%
|
|
Shoreline Park Condominium Association
4950 N Marine Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 2,349 tons
Highest 19%
|
|
2920 2926 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
2920 2926 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 469 tons
Lowest 23%
|
|
2970 N LAKE SHORE DR
2970 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 892 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
Kenwood Acad HS -CPS
(CPS)
5015 S Blackstone Ave
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,886 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
5530 5548 N SHERIDAN RD
5530 5548 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 348 tons
Lowest 12%
|
|
546 550 W ARLINGTON PL
546 550 W ARLINGTON PL
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 333 tons
Lowest 11%
|
|
4242 4246 N SHERIDAN RD
4242 4246 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 552 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
515 523 W BARRY AVE
515 523 W BARRY AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 350 tons
Lowest 12%
|
|
528 534 W ALDINE AVE
528 534 W ALDINE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 317 tons
Lowest 10%
|
|
711 W GORDON TER
711 W GORDON TER
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 729 tons
Lowest 42%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data