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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1645 1663 W PRATT BLVD
1645 1663 W PRATT BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft 
Lowest 23%
| 330 tons
Lowest 11%
|
|
200 S Michigan, LLC
200 S Michigan Ave
| Office | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 1,832 tons 
Highest 25%
|
|
4845 4859 N MAGNOLIA AVE
4845 4859 N MAGNOLIA AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 250 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
One North Dearborn
1 N Dearborn St
| Office | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 5,380 tons
Highest 6%
|
|
625 W WRIGHTWOOD AVE
625 W WRIGHTWOOD AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
| 430 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
DuSable Campus -CPS
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(CPS)
4934 S Wabash Ave
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft | 2,028 tons |
|
8711 W Bryn Mawr
8711 W Bryn Mawr
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 445 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
167 N GREEN ST
167 N GREEN ST
| Office | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 3,235 tons
Highest 12%
|
|
Madden Wells
650 E 38TH PLACE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 968 tons
Highest 46%
|
|
Hayden
1109 W Washington
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 489 tons
Lowest 25%
|
|
325 S Paulina
325 S Paulina St
| Office | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 281 tons
Lowest 7%
|
|
Linkt Apartments
830 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 262 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
1116 W ADAMS ST
1116 W ADAMS ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 740 tons
Lowest 43%
|
|
North Water Apartments & Loews Chicago Hotel
340 E North Water St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 4,113 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
1515 S Michigan Condominium Association
1515 S Michigan Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 298 tons
Lowest 8%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data