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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
The Edge on Broadway
6149 N. Broadway
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft 
Lowest 37%
| 445 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
2737 N. Hoyne Avenue
2737 N. Hoyne Avenue
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
| 258 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
Perlstein Hall
🕰️
(Illinois Tech)
10 W 33rd Street
| College/University | 5.7 kg/sqft | 583 tons |
|
Thornwood House Apartments (University Park)
🕰️
1 Thornwood Drive
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft | 819 tons |
|
ASPIRA Business and Finance High School
🕰️
2989 N Milwaukee Ave
| K-12 School | 5.7 kg/sqft | 470 tons |
|
Lincoln Village 2
🕰️
6135-6199 North Lincoln
| Strip Mall | 5.7 kg/sqft | 326 tons |
|
EMME Chicago - CO (mz16)
🕰️
165 N Desplaines St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft | 1,121 tons  |
|
Aurelien
833 N Clark St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
| 2,190 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
The Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School
6245 S INGLESIDE AVE
| K-12 School | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
| 431 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
Sabina Senior Housing Corporation (St. Sabina Elders Village)
1222 W 79th St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
| 439 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
831 43 W Adams St
831 43 W Adams St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
| 592 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Harold Washington Apartments
4946 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
| 247 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
Humboldt Ridge Apartments
🕰️
1816 N St Louis Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft | 257 tons |
|
213 West Institute Place
213 W Institute Pl
| Office | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
| 883 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
Claremont Academy Elementary School
🕰️
(CPS)
6315 S Claremont Ave
| K-12 School | 5.7 kg/sqft | 647 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data