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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
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1530 N DEARBORN PKWY
1530 N DEARBORN PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft 
Lowest 12%
| 485 tons
Lowest 25%
|
|
State Place Condominium Association
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1101 S State St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 2,269 tons 
Highest 20%
|
|
6800 S KEATING AVE
6800 S KEATING AVE
| Senior Living Community | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 355 tons
Lowest 13%
|
|
6244 S KING DR
6244 S KING DR
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 422 tons
Lowest 19%
|
|
Ingleside investment group
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8101-25 S Ingleside
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft | 401 tons |
|
431 W OAKDALE AVE
431 W OAKDALE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 569 tons
Lowest 32%
|
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Providence St. Mel School
119 S Central Park Blvd
| K-12 School | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 782 tons
Lowest 45%
|
|
33 W Ontario Condominium Association
33 W Ontario St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 4,355 tons
Highest 8%
|
|
Parc Huron
469 West Huron St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 1,508 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
4101 4113 N KEDZIE AVE
4101 4113 N KEDZIE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 222 tons
Lowest 3%
|
|
321 339 S DESPLAINES ST
321 339 S DESPLAINES ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 756 tons
Lowest 44%
|
|
5101 5115 N SHERIDAN RD
5101 5115 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 880 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
5969 N RAVENSWOOD AVE
5969 N RAVENSWOOD AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 352 tons
Lowest 13%
|
|
4848 N CENTRAL AVE
4848 N CENTRAL AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 254 tons
Lowest 5%
|
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1540 N STATE PKWY
1540 N STATE PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
| 440 tons
Lowest 20%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data