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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1700 East 56th Street
1700 E 56th St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft 
Lowest 25%
| 2,383 tons 
Highest 19%
|
|
3622 S STATE ST
3622 S STATE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 484 tons
Lowest 25%
|
|
2532 2554 NARRAGANSETT AVE
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2532 2554 NARRAGANSETT AVE
| Other - Mall | 5.0 kg/sqft | 343 tons |
|
2014 2036 S MICHIGAN AVE
2014 2036 S MICHIGAN AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 703 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
4840 N BROADWAY
4840 N BROADWAY
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 288 tons
Lowest 7%
|
|
Bellarmine Hall-ID#173888
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(Loyola)
6628 N SHERIDAN RD
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 5.0 kg/sqft | 427 tons |
|
1061 W ROSEMONT AVE
1061 W ROSEMONT AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 403 tons
Lowest 17%
|
|
Sears
1900 W Lawrence Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 499 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
212 W Superior St
210 222 W Superior St
| Office | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 465 tons
Lowest 23%
|
|
4336 4344 S DREXEL BLVD
4336 4344 S DREXEL BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 417 tons
Lowest 18%
|
|
7429 7441 S KINGSTON AVE
7429 7441 S KINGSTON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 315 tons
Lowest 9%
|
|
Optima Chicago Center
200 E Illinios St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 2,845 tons
Highest 15%
|
|
Millenium on LaSalle
29 S LaSalle St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 942 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
Godfrey Hotel
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127 w Huron
| Hotel | 5.0 kg/sqft | 884 tons |
|
Lenart Regional Gifted Center -CPS
(CPS)
8101 S LaSalle St
| K-12 School | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 302 tons
Lowest 8%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data