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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Hibbard -CPS
(CPS)
3244 W Ainslie St
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft 
Lowest 40%
| 1,009 tons 
Highest 44%
|
|
Falconer Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3020 N Lamon Ave
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 984 tons
Highest 46%
|
|
Gale Community Academy, Stephen F -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1631 W Jonquil Ter
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft | 935 tons |
|
Jesse Sherwood Elementary School
🕰️
(CPS)
245 W 57th St
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft | 307 tons |
|
Frederico Garcia Lorca -CPS
(CPS)
3231 N Springfield
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 628 tons
Lowest 35%
|
|
Dawes Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3810 W 81st Place
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 533 tons
Lowest 29%
|
|
Stowe -CPS
(CPS)
3444 W Wabansia Ave
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 797 tons
Lowest 46%
|
|
Waters Fine Arts -CPS
(CPS)
4540 N Campbell Ave
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 555 tons
Lowest 31%
|
|
4141 W George
🕰️
4141 W George St.
| Mixed Use Property | 5.9 kg/sqft | 385 tons |
|
Union Square Condominium Association
333 W Hubbard St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 1,788 tons
Highest 26%
|
|
Menards
2601 N Clybourn St
| Retail Store | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 849 tons
Lowest 49%
|
|
Northwest Armory
1551 N Kedzie Ave
| Other | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 1,202 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
Granville Beach Condominiums
6171 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 2,260 tons
Highest 20%
|
|
1122 N DEARBORN ST
1122 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 1,389 tons
Highest 34%
|
|
2850 N SHERIDAN RD
2850 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 1,122 tons
Highest 41%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data