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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Next Gateway, LLC
🕰️
620 N Lasalle St
| Retail Store | 8.8 kg/sqft  | 618 tons  |
|
5411 N WINTHROP AVE
5411 N WINTHROP AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 8.8 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 444 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
Newberry Library
🕰️
60 W Walton St
| Library | 8.8 kg/sqft | 1,766 tons |
|
57 63 W Grand Ave
57 - 63 W Grand Ave
| Office | 8.8 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 697 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
Parkway Apartments
712 720 W DIVERSEY PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 8.8 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 464 tons
Lowest 23%
|
|
4600 4616 N WINCHESTER AVE
4600 4616 N WINCHESTER AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 8.8 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 444 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
Warwick Allerton Hotel Chicago
136 148 E Huron St
| Hotel | 8.8 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 2,638 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
20 W Kinzie St
20 W Kinzie St
| Office | 8.8 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 3,447 tons
Highest 11%
|
|
633 W NORTH AVE
633 W NORTH AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 8.7 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 2,195 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
Hilton Garden Inn Chicago Mccormick Place
123 E Cermak Rd
| Hotel | 8.7 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 3,154 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
The Van Buren
808 W Van Buren
| Multifamily Housing | 8.7 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 1,020 tons
Highest 44%
|
|
Norville Center - Gentile Center-ID#254171
🕰️
(Loyola)
6526 N Winthrop
| College/University | 8.7 kg/sqft | 1,115 tons |
|
Hollywood House
5700 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 8.7 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 1,185 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
Paper Place Lofts
🕰️
801 South Wells Street
| Multifamily Housing | 8.7 kg/sqft | 1,211 tons |
|
Southview Manor
3311 S Michigan Ave
| Senior Living Community | 8.7 kg/sqft
Highest 20%
| 477 tons
Lowest 24%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data