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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Farcroft by the Lake
1337 W Fargo Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft 
Lowest 23%
| 566 tons
Lowest 31%
|
|
Coastland Apartments., Inc.
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2666 E 73rd St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 310 tons
Lowest 9%
|
|
223 W Erie St
223 W Erie St
| Office | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 328 tons
Lowest 10%
|
|
Pilsen Comm Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1420 W 17th St
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft | 404 tons |
|
StSabina_School
🕰️
7801 S Throop St
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft | 357 tons |
|
Budlong Elementary, Lyman A -CPS
(CPS)
2701 W Foster Ave
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 501 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
Oglesby -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7646 S Green St
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft | 375 tons |
|
Lincoln Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
615 W Kemper Pl
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 563 tons
Lowest 31%
|
|
Hinton Elementary, William Augustus -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
646 W 71st St
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft | 355 tons |
|
330 N Clinton
330 N Clinton St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 315 tons
Lowest 9%
|
|
372 W Ontario St
372 W Ontario St
| Office | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 245 tons
Lowest 4%
|
|
Chicago Residential Inc.
2440 N Lakeview Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 1,229 tons 
Highest 38%
|
|
La Follette Park
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1333 N Laramie Ave
| Other - Recreation | 4.9 kg/sqft | 318 tons |
|
Malibu Condominium
6007 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 2,504 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
6 N Michigan Ave
6 N Michigan Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 1,123 tons
Highest 41%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data