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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Cardenas Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2345 S Millard Ave
| K-12 School | 4.3 kg/sqft 
Lowest 14%
| 640 tons
Lowest 36%
|
|
Williams Multiplex Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2710 S Dearborn St
| K-12 School | 4.3 kg/sqft | 637 tons |
|
Field Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7019 N Ashland Ave
| K-12 School | 4.3 kg/sqft | 455 tons |
|
Nettelhorst Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3252 N Broadway Ave
| K-12 School | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 452 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
Ruggles, Martha M -CPS
(CPS)
7831 S Prairie Ave
| K-12 School | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 424 tons
Lowest 19%
|
|
Faraday Elementary, Michael -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
3250 W Monroe St
| K-12 School | 4.3 kg/sqft | 268 tons |
|
Sanctuary Hall
2358 N Sheffield Ave
| College/University | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 443 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
990 West Fullerton Bldg
(DePaul)
990 W Fullerton Ave
| College/University | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 399 tons
Lowest 17%
|
|
Lincoln Perry Apts
3245 S Prairie Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 1,345 tons 
Highest 35%
|
|
Westhaven Superblock
(CHA)
1815 W Monroe St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 436 tons
Lowest 20%
|
|
Von Steuben Metro Science Center -CPS
(CPS)
5039 N Kimball Ave
| K-12 School | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 1,070 tons
Highest 43%
|
|
Lake Shore Condominium Association
1440 N LAKESHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 1,305 tons
Highest 36%
|
|
Ontario Street Lofts CA
411 W Ontario St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 1,114 tons
Highest 41%
|
|
530 North Lake Shore Drive
530 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 2,211 tons
Highest 20%
|
|
Tiara Homeowners Association
6145 6147 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 4.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 14%
| 920 tons
Highest 48%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data