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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
400 W Ontario St
400 W Ontario St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft 
Lowest 17%
| 1,032 tons 
Highest 44%
|
|
Stagg Elementary, Amos A -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7424 S Morgan St
| K-12 School | 4.5 kg/sqft | 308 tons |
|
Epic Charter Academy - CPS
(CPS)
8255 S Houston Ave
| K-12 School | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 311 tons
Lowest 9%
|
|
UIC College Prep
🕰️
1231 S Damen Ave
| K-12 School | 4.5 kg/sqft | 374 tons |
|
James N Thorp -CPS
(CPS)
8914 S Buffalo Ave
| K-12 School | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 609 tons
Lowest 34%
|
|
Hale Elementary, Nathan -CPS
(CPS)
6140 S Melvina Ave
| K-12 School | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 448 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
3150 N Sheridan Rd
3150 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 1,185 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
The Belmont by Reside
3170 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 2,126 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
The State Parkway CA
1445 N State Pkwy
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 1,294 tons
Highest 37%
|
|
Cumberland Centre - Building 1
🕰️
5440 N Cumberland Ave
| Office | 4.5 kg/sqft | 871 tons |
|
Austin Polytechical HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
231 N Pine Ave
| K-12 School | 4.5 kg/sqft | 1,771 tons |
|
Museum Pointe CA
233 E 13th St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 1,823 tons
Highest 26%
|
|
2626 Lakeview Condominium
2626 N Lakeview Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 3,503 tons
Highest 11%
|
|
740 N MILWAUKEE AVE
740 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 374 tons
Lowest 14%
|
|
3900 N PINE GROVE AVE
3900 N PINE GROVE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
| 444 tons
Lowest 21%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data