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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Corliss HS -CPS
(CPS)
821 E 103rd St
| K-12 School | 9.5 kg/sqft 
Highest 16%
| 2,586 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
Target, Chicago South Loop (1889)
1154 S Clark St
| Retail Store | 9.5 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 1,694 tons
Highest 27%
|
|
900 W 63RD PKWY
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900 W 63RD PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 9.5 kg/sqft | 774 tons  |
|
COP_MADW5957
5957-73 W Madison St
| Multifamily Housing | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 583 tons
Lowest 32%
|
|
Sheridan Park Apartments
4536-40 N Magnolia Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 519 tons
Lowest 28%
|
|
Press Office Building
1427 E 60th St
| Office | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 880 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
Levi Hall
5801 S Ellis Ave
| Office | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 850 tons
Lowest 49%
|
|
Crerar Library
(UChicago)
5730 S Ellis Ave
| Library | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 1,582 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
Bryn Mawr
5550 N Kenmore Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 1,467 tons
Highest 32%
|
|
Nightingale Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5250 S Rockwell St
| K-12 School | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 1,327 tons
Highest 36%
|
|
Conrad Hotel/MWRD McMillan Pavilion
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101 E Erie
| Hotel | 9.4 kg/sqft | 3,649 tons |
|
820 W Jackson Blvd
820 W Jackson Blvd
| Office | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 1,766 tons
Highest 26%
|
|
S2-Sinai; Schwab Rehab Institute
1401 S California Ave
| Outpatient Rehabilitation/Physical Therapy | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 1,671 tons
Highest 28%
|
|
Hilton Chicago O'Hare Airport
10000 W O'Hare Dr
| Hotel | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 4,832 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
Horizon Realty Group
5650 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
| 1,181 tons
Highest 40%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data