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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Albany Terrace Apts
(CHA)
3030 W 21st Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft 
Lowest 26%
| 1,332 tons 
Highest 36%
|
|
Imperial Towers Condominium
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4250 N Marine Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 5,798 tons
Highest 6%
|
|
565 W Quincy
565 W Quincy St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 1,951 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
Edgewater Beach Apartments Corporation
5555 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 3,148 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
5901 N SHERIDAN RD
5901 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 1,226 tons
Highest 38%
|
|
240 N Ashland Ave
240 N Ashland Ave
| Office | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 418 tons
Lowest 18%
|
|
1313 W RANDOLPH ST
1313 W RANDOLPH ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 458 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
Hampton House
1715 1733 E 53RD ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 906 tons
Highest 49%
|
|
St. Scholastica Monastery / UNO Rogers Park Elementary and High School
7416 N Ridge Rd
| K-12 School | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 1,041 tons
Highest 44%
|
|
1090
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1601 N Harlem Ave
| Retail Store | 5.1 kg/sqft | 1,513 tons |
|
2970 N SHERIDAN RD
2970 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 1,244 tons
Highest 38%
|
|
North & Kostner
4501 W North Ave
| Retail Store | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 1,200 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
Irish American Heritage Center
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4626 North Knox
| K-12 School | 5.1 kg/sqft | 409 tons |
|
100 W Chestnut
100 W Chestnut St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 1,490 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
Alta at K Station
555 W Kinzie St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
| 4,722 tons
Highest 7%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data