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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Bobs Roberts
🕰️
920 E. 59th St.
| Laboratory | 9.8 kg/sqft  | 752 tons  |
|
Douglass, Frederick Academy HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
543 N Waller Ave
| K-12 School | 9.8 kg/sqft | 1,320 tons |
|
Volta Elementary, Alessandro -CPS
(CPS)
4950 N Avers Ave
| K-12 School | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 849 tons
Lowest 49%
|
|
Munroe Hall
(DePaul)
2312 N Clifton Ave
| College/University | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 806 tons
Lowest 46%
|
|
Park View Towers
2740 N PINE GROVE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 847 tons
Lowest 48%
|
|
Flats on LaSalle Condominium Association
🕰️
1140 N LaSalle St
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft | 790 tons |
|
Madison 123 Assoc LLC
123 W Madison St
| Office | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 885 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
Brooks Homes
(CHA)
1324 S Loomis St
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 2,748 tons
Highest 16%
|
|
2631 S Indiana Ave
2631 S Indiana Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 2,420 tons
Highest 18%
|
|
29 E. Madison LLC
29 E Madison St
| Office | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 2,362 tons
Highest 19%
|
|
Intercontinental Hotel
🚩
505 N Michigan Ave
| Hotel | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 7,040 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
17 23 N WABASH AVE
17 23 N WABASH AVE
| Office | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 693 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
1154 N CAMPBELL
1154 N CAMPBELL
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 510 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
4500 N WINCHESTER AVE
4500 N WINCHESTER AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 798 tons
Lowest 46%
|
|
Chicago Transit Authority - 120 N. Racine
120 N Racine Ave
| Office | 9.8 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 1,232 tons
Highest 38%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data