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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Quadrangle House
6700 S Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 9.9 kg/sqft 
Highest 14%
| 2,181 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
1850-1856 N Clark St
1850-1856 N Clark St
| Multifamily Housing | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 1,894 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
Professional Office Building
840 W Irving Park Rd
| Medical Office | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 514 tons 
Lowest 28%
|
|
Rowe Clark Math and Science Academy
🕰️
3645 W. Chicago
| K-12 School | 9.9 kg/sqft | 510 tons |
|
CDM Center
(DePaul)
243 S Wabash Ave
| College/University | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 1,832 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
939 North Avenue Collection,LLC
913 949 W North Ave
| Mixed Use Property | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 2,177 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
Chicago Bar Association
321 S Plymouth Ct
| Office | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 978 tons
Highest 46%
|
|
1801 S WABASH AVE
1801 S WABASH AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 586 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Sheridan Edgewater
🕰️
5200 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 9.9 kg/sqft | 1,227 tons |
|
IIT Research Tower
🕰️
(Illinois Tech)
10 West 35th Street
| College/University | 9.9 kg/sqft | 3,887 tons |
|
1616 E 50TH PL
1616 E 50TH PL
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 582 tons
Lowest 32%
|
|
The Albert/EMC2
228 E ONTARIO ST
| Hotel | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 1,139 tons
Highest 41%
|
|
Mercy Family Health Center at Oakwood Shores
3753 3755 S Cottage Grove Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 712 tons
Lowest 41%
|
|
3110 Sheridan Condominiums
🕰️
3110 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft | 1,175 tons |
|
Haymarket Center
932 W Washington Blvd
| Residential Care Facility | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 1,469 tons
Highest 32%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data