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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Burbank Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2035 N Mobile Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft 
Lowest 31%
| 901 tons 
Highest 49%
|
|
Tanner Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
7350 S Evans Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 288 tons
Lowest 7%
|
|
Till, Emmett Louis Math & Science -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
6543 S Champlain Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft | 730 tons |
|
Gresham Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
8524 S Green St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft | 609 tons |
|
Otoole Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
6550 S Seeley Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft | 521 tons |
|
Carter Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5740 S Michigan Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft | 469 tons |
|
Peck Elementary-CPS
(CPS)
3826 W 58th St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 640 tons
Lowest 36%
|
|
Lozano Bilingual Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1501 N Greenview Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft | 311 tons |
|
Jamieson Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5650 N Mozart St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 605 tons
Lowest 34%
|
|
Jahn World Language -CPS
(CPS)
3149 N Wolcott Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 447 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
Gompers Fine Arts Option Elementary - CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
12302 S State St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft | 405 tons |
|
Goodlow Elementary Magnet -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2040 W 62nd St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft | 362 tons |
|
The Madison at Racine/1200 Madison Racine LLC
1164 W Madison
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 1,356 tons
Highest 35%
|
|
320 322 W OAKDALE AVE
320 322 W OAKDALE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 712 tons
Lowest 41%
|
|
State & Chestnut
845 N State St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 2,441 tons
Highest 18%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data