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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Fenger Achievement Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
11220 S Wallace St
| K-12 School | 4.8 kg/sqft  | 1,637 tons  |
|
One River Place Condominium Association
758 N Larrabee St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 1,748 tons
Highest 27%
|
|
3750 North Lakeshore Drive
3750 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 1,870 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
Silver Tower Condominium Association
303 W Ohio St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 1,364 tons
Highest 35%
|
|
Hermitage on Huron Condominium Association
70 W Huron St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 1,270 tons
Highest 37%
|
|
Venetian Condominium Assoc.
222 232 W DIVISION ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 1,080 tons
Highest 43%
|
|
Cameron Elementary- CPS
(CPS)
1234 N Monticello Ave
| K-12 School | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 658 tons
Lowest 38%
|
|
444 W SAINT JAMES PL
444 W SAINT JAMES PL
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 541 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
714 N WAVELAND AVE
714 N WAVELAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 252 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
2236 2296 N LINCOLN PARK WEST AVE
2236 2296 N LINCOLN PARK WEST AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 455 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
3260 N LAKE SHORE DR
3260 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 1,252 tons
Highest 38%
|
|
1712-20 Albion
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1712 1720 W ALBION AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft | 395 tons |
|
5152 5178 S KING DR
5152 5178 S KING DR
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 284 tons
Lowest 7%
|
|
652 E 50TH ST
652 E 50TH ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 348 tons
Lowest 12%
|
|
813 831 W WAVELAND AVE
813 831 W WAVELAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
| 239 tons
Lowest 4%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data