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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Catherine Courts Condominium Association of Chicago (5306-5310 N. Chester Ave.)
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5306 - 5310 N. Chester Ave.
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft  | 572 tons |
|
Hawthorne House Apartments
3450 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 2,989 tons 
Highest 14%
|
|
East Ohio LLC
420 E Ohio St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 1,836 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
1936 N Clark
1936 N Clark
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 991 tons
Highest 45%
|
|
4444 W LAWRENCE AVE
4444 W LAWRENCE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 475 tons
Lowest 24%
|
|
1316 1326 N STATE PKWY
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1316 1326 N STATE PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft | 862 tons |
|
1366 Dearborn Condominium
1366 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 437 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
2024 2030 S WABASH AVE
2024 2030 S WABASH AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 351 tons
Lowest 12%
|
|
6300 6326 N SHERIDAN RD
6300 6326 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 785 tons
Lowest 45%
|
|
1217 1227 W LUNT AVE
1217 1227 W LUNT AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 336 tons
Lowest 11%
|
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4572 N MILWAUKEE AVE
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4572 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft | 292 tons |
|
1100 N LASALLE DR
1100 N LASALLE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 720 tons
Lowest 41%
|
|
344 358 W OAKDALE AVE
344 358 W OAKDALE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 614 tons
Lowest 35%
|
|
Mireles Academy, Arnold -CPS
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(CPS)
9000 S Exchange Ave
| K-12 School | 5.6 kg/sqft | 807 tons |
|
2322 2326 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
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2322 2326 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.6 kg/sqft | 448 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data