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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
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229 235 E LAKE SHORE DR
229 235 E LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 4.7 kg/sqft 
Lowest 20%
| 437 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
1660 N HUDSON AVE
1660 N HUDSON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
| 325 tons
Lowest 10%
|
|
Merchandise Mart
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222 Merchandise Mart Plz
| Office | 4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
| 19,236 tons  #15 Highest
|
|
Marshall Metro HS -CPS
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(CPS)
3250 W Adams St
| K-12 School | 4.7 kg/sqft | 1,733 tons |
|
2300 2320 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
2300 2320 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 259 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
4424 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
4424 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 260 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
Upshore Chapter
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4555 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft | 592 tons |
|
Englewood STEM High School
6835 S Normal Blvd
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 729 tons
Lowest 42%
|
|
One Bennet Park Apartments
451 E Grand Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 3,648 tons
Highest 10%
|
|
1616 E 56Th St
1616 E 56Th St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 1,552 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
311 W Illinois St
311 W Illinois St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 1,337 tons
Highest 36%
|
|
Marlowe Chicago
675 N Wells St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 697 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
4631
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4631-37 S. Lake Park
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft | 266 tons |
|
367 W LOCUST ST
367 W LOCUST ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 417 tons
Lowest 18%
|
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Old Town Midrise Condo
343 W Old Town Court
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 412 tons
Lowest 18%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data