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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
30 N LaSalle St
30 N LaSalle St
| Office | 5.9 kg/sqft 
Lowest 40%
| 5,736 tons 
Highest 6%
|
|
321 N Clark @ Riverfront Plaza
321 N Clark St
| Office | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 5,807 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
191 N Wacker
191 N Wacker Dr
| Office | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 4,594 tons
Highest 8%
|
|
150 N Michigan Ave
150 N Michigan Ave
| Office | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 4,155 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
849 863 W BUENA AVE
849 863 W BUENA AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 300 tons
Lowest 8%
|
|
5514 5524 S BLACKSTONE AVE
5514 5524 S BLACKSTONE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 426 tons
Lowest 19%
|
|
4631 W FOSTER AVE
4631 W FOSTER AVE
| Strip Mall | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 834 tons
Lowest 48%
|
|
Sixty Forty North Wells
640 N Wells
| Multifamily Housing | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 1,580 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
Swartberg House
3101 W Touhy Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 489 tons
Lowest 25%
|
|
The Pierre Condominium
2100 N Lincoln Park West
| Multifamily Housing | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 1,102 tons
Highest 42%
|
|
Catalyst Charter Es - Howland -CPS
(CPS)
1616 S Spaulding Ave
| K-12 School | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 807 tons
Lowest 46%
|
|
Darwin -CPS
(CPS)
3116 W Belden Ave
| K-12 School | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 703 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
Blaine Elementary, James G -CPS
(CPS)
1420 W Grace St
| K-12 School | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 571 tons
Lowest 32%
|
|
SoutHigh School ide Occupational Academy HS -CPS
(CPS)
7342 S Hoyne Ave
| K-12 School | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 317 tons
Lowest 10%
|
|
Pasteur Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5825 S Kostner Ave
| K-12 School | 5.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 39%
| 577 tons
Lowest 32%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data