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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Chicago Theological Seminary
1407 E 60th St
| College/University | 8.3 kg/sqft 
Highest 23%
| 670 tons 
Lowest 38%
|
|
1201 W ADAMS ST
1201 W ADAMS ST
| Multifamily Housing | 8.3 kg/sqft
Highest 23%
| 694 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
Gleacher Center
(UChicago)
450 N Cityfront Plz
| College/University | 8.3 kg/sqft
Highest 23%
| 1,781 tons
Highest 26%
|
|
Astor Terrace
1450 N ASTOR ST
| Multifamily Housing | 8.3 kg/sqft
Highest 23%
| 563 tons
Lowest 31%
|
|
River North Point
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350 N Orleans St
| Office | 8.3 kg/sqft
Highest 23%
| 15,659 tons #28 Highest
|
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Mundelein Center- ID#102408
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(Loyola)
1020 W Sheridan Rd
| College/University | 8.3 kg/sqft | 1,713 tons |
|
500 N Michigan
500 N Michigan Ave
| Office | 8.3 kg/sqft
Highest 23%
| 3,237 tons
Highest 12%
|
|
1767 N Milwaukee Ave
1767 N Milwaukee Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 8.2 kg/sqft
Highest 24%
| 486 tons
Lowest 25%
|
|
412 N Wells St
412 N Wells St
| Office | 8.2 kg/sqft
Highest 24%
| 419 tons
Lowest 19%
|
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Fletcher Jones Audi
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949 N ELSTON AVE
| Automobile Dealership | 8.2 kg/sqft | 1,983 tons |
|
400 W. Erie
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400 W Erie St
| Office | 8.2 kg/sqft | 607 tons |
|
UNO Officer Donald J. Marquez Charter School
2916 W 47TH ST
| K-12 School | 8.2 kg/sqft
Highest 24%
| 478 tons
Lowest 24%
|
|
Saieh Hall for Economics
(UChicago)
5757 S University Ave
| College/University | 8.2 kg/sqft
Highest 24%
| 1,251 tons
Highest 38%
|
|
The Granville Condominum Association
1134 W Granville Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 8.2 kg/sqft
Highest 24%
| 1,991 tons
Highest 23%
|
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Mondial River West
910 W Huron St
| Multifamily Housing | 8.2 kg/sqft
Highest 24%
| 1,451 tons
Highest 33%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data