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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
5555 N CUMBERLAND AVE
5555 N CUMBERLAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft 
Lowest 18%
| 606 tons
Lowest 34%
|
|
William Rainey Harper High School
🕰️
(CPS)
6520 S Wood St
| K-12 School | 4.6 kg/sqft | 1,016 tons  |
|
4701 4705 N BEACON ST
4701 4705 N BEACON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 233 tons
Lowest 4%
|
|
1632 S INDIANA AVE
1632 S INDIANA AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 271 tons
Lowest 6%
|
|
Harper Place Condominium Association
5309 5343 S HARPER AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 405 tons
Lowest 17%
|
|
25 E Washington
25 E Washington St
| Office | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 2,242 tons
Highest 20%
|
|
Northern Trust - Chicago
801 S Canal St
| Office | 4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
| 3,148 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
8727 W Bryn Mawr Ave
8727 W Bryn Mawr Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 414 tons
Lowest 18%
|
|
540 W Webster
540 W Webster
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 930 tons
Highest 48%
|
|
Union Row
560-648 W 16th Street
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 320 tons
Lowest 10%
|
|
202 W Hill Street
202 W Hill Street
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 3,181 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
Galvin Library
🕰️
35 W 33rd Street
| College/University | 4.5 kg/sqft | 419 tons |
|
Gill Park Cooperative
810 W. Grace St.
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 1,014 tons
Highest 44%
|
|
2012 W St Paul Ave
2012 W St Paul Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 278 tons
Lowest 7%
|
|
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1257 1265 W Pratt Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 470 tons
Lowest 23%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data