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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
4900 Drexel Cooperative
🕰️
4900 South Drexel
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft  | 437 tons |
|
1755 E 55TH ST
1755 E 55TH ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 917 tons 
Highest 48%
|
|
Fifteen Thirty North State Parkway Building Corporation
1530 1534 N STATE PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 368 tons
Lowest 14%
|
|
1130 N LAKE SHORE DR
1130 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 293 tons
Lowest 8%
|
|
1001 W MADISON ST
1001 W MADISON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 629 tons
Lowest 35%
|
|
Dunbar Vocational Acad HS -CPS
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(CPS)
3000 S King Dr
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft | 1,569 tons |
|
2130 N LINCOLN PARK WEST
2130 N LINCOLN PARK WEST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 683 tons
Lowest 39%
|
|
1327 1337 W LUNT AVE
1327 1337 W LUNT AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 295 tons
Lowest 8%
|
|
5631 5635 N KENMORE AVE
5631 5635 N KENMORE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 279 tons
Lowest 7%
|
|
5620 5626 N KENMORE AVE
5620 5626 N KENMORE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 263 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
468 W MELROSE ST
468 W MELROSE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 270 tons
Lowest 6%
|
|
Edgewater Flats Condominium
1215 1225 W GRANVILLE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 256 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
452 W ALDINE AVE
452 W ALDINE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 432 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
606 620 W CORNELIA AVE
606 620 W CORNELIA AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 354 tons
Lowest 13%
|
|
De La Salle Institute
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3434 S Michigan Ave
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft | 815 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data