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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
100 Bellevue Place
100 E Bellevue Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft 
Lowest 23%
| 1,730 tons 
Highest 27%
|
|
401 East Ontario Condominiums
🕰️
401 E Ontario St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft | 2,199 tons |
|
3100 N SHERIDAN RD
3100 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 864 tons
Lowest 49%
|
|
Parkview Residences
🕰️
5920 N Ridge
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft | 271 tons |
|
3134 N Clark St
3134 N Clark St
| Urgent Care/Clinic/Other Outpatient | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 283 tons
Lowest 7%
|
|
Hyman G Rickover Naval Academy High School
🕰️
5700 W BERTEAU AVE
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft | 573 tons |
|
One East 14th Place
5 E 14th Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 760 tons
Lowest 44%
|
|
Kelly HS -CPS
(CPS)
4136 S California Ave
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 1,476 tons
Highest 32%
|
|
museum of contemporary art
220 E Chicago Ave
| Museum | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 1,477 tons
Highest 32%
|
|
Coast at Lakeshore East
345 E Wacker Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 2,796 tons
Highest 15%
|
|
The Pavilion
🚩
5441 N East River Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 5,254 tons
Highest 6%
|
|
Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile
633 N St Clair St
| Office | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 3,077 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
15th Street Lofts
🕰️
1503 S State Street
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft | 700 tons |
|
Ridge Place Apartments
7115 7129 N RIDGE BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 255 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
9510 S CONSTANCE AVE
9510 S CONSTANCE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 802 tons
Lowest 46%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data