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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center, Inc.
5001 - 5013 S Michigan Ave
| Other - Services | 8.0 kg/sqft 
Highest 26%
| 483 tons 
Lowest 25%
|
|
6125 S KENWOOD AVE
6125 S KENWOOD AVE
| Senior Living Community | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 1,031 tons
Highest 44%
|
|
1237 W Fullerton Ave
1237 W Fullerton Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 1,768 tons
Highest 26%
|
|
7100 S SOUTH SHORE DR
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7100 S SOUTH SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft | 911 tons |
|
The Palmer House Hotel
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17 E Monroe St
| Hotel | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 13,521 tons #37 Highest
|
|
100 N LaSalle
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100 N LaSalle St
| Office | 8.0 kg/sqft | 1,280 tons |
|
71215A State St
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101 N State St E
| Retail Store | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 14,741 tons #33 Highest
|
|
1555 N ASHLAND AVE
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1555 N ASHLAND AVE
| Hotel | 7.9 kg/sqft | 618 tons |
|
8647 W Higgins Road
8647 W Higgins Road
| Office | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 1,169 tons
Highest 40%
|
|
Oakdale Terrace
525 W Oakdale Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 479 tons
Lowest 24%
|
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Armstrong Intl Studies Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2110 W Greenleaf Ave
| K-12 School | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 1,167 tons
Highest 40%
|
|
Casals Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3501 W Potomac Ave
| K-12 School | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 527 tons
Lowest 28%
|
|
Carnegie Elementary, Andrew -CPS
(CPS)
1414 E 61st Pl
| K-12 School | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 509 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
Albert Merritt Billings
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950 East 59th St
| Office | 7.9 kg/sqft | 3,881 tons |
|
RJ Quinn Academy
558 W De Koven St
| Adult Education | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 525 tons
Lowest 28%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data