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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Park Douglas Apartments
(CHA)
1235 S Washtenaw
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft 
Lowest 18%
| 309 tons
Lowest 9%
|
|
Glenmoor Manor
1041 1051 W Glenlake Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 255 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
Montclare Senior Residences of Avalon Park
1210 E 78th St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 470 tons
Lowest 23%
|
|
79th St. Limited Partnership dba Wrightwood Service Center
2815 W 79th St
| Senior Living Community | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 343 tons
Lowest 12%
|
|
Prieto, Dr Jorge Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2231 N Central Ave
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 531 tons
Lowest 29%
|
|
North Town Village
(CHA)
1311 N Halsted
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 469 tons
Lowest 23%
|
|
Gage Park HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5600 S Rockwell St
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft | 1,019 tons  |
|
Lafayette Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2714 W Augusta Blvd
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 786 tons
Lowest 45%
|
|
Piccolo Specialty -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1040 N Keeler Ave
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft | 1,016 tons |
|
Brentano Math & Science Academy -CPS
(CPS)
2723 N Fairfield Ave
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 533 tons
Lowest 29%
|
|
Spencer Elementary Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
214 N Lavergne Ave
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft | 566 tons |
|
Harvard Elemtary-CPS
(CPS)
7525 S Harvard Ave
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 370 tons
Lowest 14%
|
|
Evers Elementary, Medgar -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
9811 S Lowe Ave
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft | 245 tons |
|
363 W Erie St
363 W Erie St
| Office | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 546 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
Tower Residences Condominium Association
1235 S Prairie Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 2,769 tons
Highest 16%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data