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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Student Center
(DePaul)
2250 N Sheffield Ave
| College/University | 13.3 kg/sqft 
Highest 7%
| 1,992 tons
Highest 23%
|
|
Moody Bible Institute, Crowell Hall
820 N LaSalle St
| College/University | 13.3 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 1,372 tons
Highest 35%
|
|
Walmart Supercenter #5965
🕰️
10900 S Doty Ave
| Wholesale Club/Supercenter | 13.3 kg/sqft | 2,068 tons |
|
Farragut Career Academy HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2345 S Christiana Ave
| K-12 School | 13.3 kg/sqft | 4,781 tons |
|
United Airlines Reservation Center
11555 W Touhy Ave
| Office | 13.2 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 1,610 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
1201 W Washington Blvd
1201 W Washington Blvd
| Office | 13.2 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 734 tons 
Lowest 42%
|
|
Lake Meadows 6
500 E 33rd St
| Multifamily Housing | 13.2 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 4,028 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
Kindred Hospital Chicago North
2544 W Montrose Ave
| Other - Specialty Hospital | 13.1 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 1,947 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
Goodman Theatre
56 60 W Randolph St
| Office | 13.1 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 665 tons
Lowest 38%
|
|
22 W Washington St
22 W Washington St
| Office | 13.0 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 6,123 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
639 W GRACE ST
639 W GRACE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 13.0 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 690 tons
Lowest 39%
|
|
Regenstein Library
1100 E 57th St
| Library | 13.0 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 7,855 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
Presence SMEMC St Elizabeth Campus
1431 N Claremont Ave
| Mixed Use Property | 13.0 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 4,013 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
Rockefeller,Mitchell,Reynolds,Hutchinson,Zoology,Erman,Mandel,Oriental,Pres.Home
5850 S Woodlawn Ave
| Worship Facility | 12.9 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 753 tons
Lowest 43%
|
|
Daley -CPS
(CPS)
5024 S Wolcott Ave
| K-12 School | 12.9 kg/sqft
Highest 7%
| 945 tons
Highest 47%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data