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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
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1100 N. Lake Shore Condominium Association
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1100 N LAKESHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft  | 1,239 tons  |
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Sterling Private Residences
345 N LaSalle St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 3,815 tons
Highest 10%
|
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One One One Morgan
111 S Morgan St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 1,037 tons
Highest 44%
|
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525 Hawthorne Place Condominium Association
525 W Hawthorne Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 1,485 tons
Highest 32%
|
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Aqua
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225 N Columbus Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 8,464 tons
Highest 3%
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5040-60 N Marine Dr
5040-5060 N Marine
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 1,272 tons
Highest 37%
|
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Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
984 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Museum | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 285 tons
Lowest 7%
|
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73 East Elm Condominium
73 E ELM ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 529 tons
Lowest 29%
|
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The Moody Memorial Church
1609 - 1641 N LaSalle St
| Worship Facility | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 786 tons
Lowest 45%
|
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CICS Northtown Academy
3900 W Peterson Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 677 tons
Lowest 39%
|
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Higgins C A -CPS
(CPS)
11710 S Morgan St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 277 tons
Lowest 6%
|
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1251/1255 S. Michigan
1255 S Michigan Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 3,311 tons
Highest 12%
|
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East Point Condo Association
6101E N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 1,691 tons
Highest 28%
|
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Horizon House Inc.
5733 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 1,487 tons
Highest 32%
|
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352 360 W WELLINGTON AVE
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352 360 W WELLINGTON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 781 tons
Lowest 45%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data