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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1025 W Addison St
1025 W Addison St
| Multifamily Housing | 8.6 kg/sqft 
Highest 21%
| 2,242 tons
Highest 20%
|
|
St Pauls United Church of Christ
🕰️
2335 N. Orchard Street
| Worship Facility | 8.6 kg/sqft | 511 tons  |
|
Back Of The Yard -CPS
(CPS)
2111 W 47th St
| K-12 School | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 1,834 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
Galileo Scholastic Academy -CPS
(CPS)
820 S Carpenter St
| K-12 School | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 880 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
Joshua D Kershaw Elementary School
🕰️
(CPS)
6450 S Lowe Ave
| K-12 School | 8.6 kg/sqft | 449 tons |
|
Misericordia Home
6300 N Ridge Ave
| Mixed Use Property | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 6,170 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
30 East Huron Condominium Association
30 40 E Huron St
| Multifamily Housing | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 4,758 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
Faulkner House Condominium Association
70 W Burton Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 1,835 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
Dearborn-Elm Condominium Association
1155 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 954 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
The Grand Ohio
211 E Ohio St
| Multifamily Housing | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 4,920 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
600 Fulton Owner, LLC
600 W Fulton St
| Office | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 2,027 tons
Highest 23%
|
|
630 North Rush
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630 North Rush
| Mixed Use Property | 8.6 kg/sqft | 2,768 tons |
|
Embassy Suites, Chicago
600 N State St
| Hotel | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 2,448 tons
Highest 18%
|
|
Mentor Building
39 S STATE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 623 tons
Lowest 35%
|
|
Headquarters
547 W Jackson Blvd
| Office | 8.6 kg/sqft
Highest 21%
| 2,999 tons
Highest 14%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data