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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1601 S STATE ST
1601 S STATE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft 
Lowest 25%
| 352 tons
Lowest 13%
|
|
4418 4424 N CLARK ST
4418 4424 N CLARK ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 263 tons
Lowest 6%
|
|
720 726 W RANDOLPH ST
720 726 W RANDOLPH ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 736 tons
Lowest 42%
|
|
Windy City Fieldhouse
2367 W Logan Blvd
| Other - Recreation | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 290 tons
Lowest 8%
|
|
2315 W LEMOYNE ST
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2315 W LEMOYNE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft | 384 tons |
|
Universal Building
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700 N SACRAMENTO BLVD
| Office | 5.0 kg/sqft | 747 tons |
|
220 S DAMEN AVE
220 S DAMEN AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 652 tons
Lowest 37%
|
|
6950 S VINCENNES AVE
6950 S VINCENNES AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 252 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
1209 1217 N ASTOR ST
1209 1217 N ASTOR ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 481 tons
Lowest 24%
|
|
3600 3608 N PINE GROVE AVE
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3600 3608 N PINE GROVE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft | 260 tons |
|
2800 N PINE GROVE AVE
2800 N PINE GROVE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 421 tons
Lowest 19%
|
|
Marlborough Condominium Association
400 414 W DEMING PL
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 983 tons 
Highest 46%
|
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Washington Square
1301 1309 W WASHINGTON BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 410 tons
Lowest 18%
|
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1117 1123 N DEARBORN ST
1117 1123 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 424 tons
Lowest 19%
|
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5040 5060 N BROADWAY
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5040 5060 N BROADWAY
| Multifamily Housing | 5.0 kg/sqft | 2,117 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data