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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
5650 N KENMORE AVE
🕰️
(CHA)
5650 N KENMORE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft  | 689 tons |
|
425 427 W ROSCOE ST
425 427 W ROSCOE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 231 tons
Lowest 4%
|
|
StJuliana_School
🕰️
7400 W Touhy
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft | 313 tons |
|
1824 N SPAULDING AVE
1824 N SPAULDING AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 302 tons
Lowest 8%
|
|
Inter- American Magnet -CPS
(CPS)
851 W Waveland Ave
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 512 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
500 Lake Shore Drive
500 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 3,324 tons 
Highest 12%
|
|
Roosevelt Collection
150 W Roosevelt Rd
| Mixed Use Property | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 4,991 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
Patrick F Sullivan Apts
(CHA)
1633 W Madison St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 1,679 tons
Highest 28%
|
|
1516 N STATE PKWY
1516 N STATE PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 484 tons
Lowest 25%
|
|
Chase Tower Chicago
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10 S Dearborn St
| Financial Office | 4.6 kg/sqft | 11,190 tons |
|
300 310 W GRAND AVE
300 310 W GRAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 440 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
525 W DEMING PL
525 W DEMING PL
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 432 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
4001 S Ellis Ave
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4001 S Ellis Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft | 282 tons |
|
1534 1542 N LAKE SHORE DR
1534 1542 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 642 tons
Lowest 36%
|
|
6800 N CALIFORNIA AVE
6800 N CALIFORNIA AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 572 tons
Lowest 32%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data