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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
River Place on the Park Condo
700 N Larrabee St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft 
Highest 27%
| 1,774 tons
Highest 26%
|
|
6165 N WINTHROP AVE
6165 N WINTHROP AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 403 tons 
Lowest 17%
|
|
Congressman George Collins Apartments
🕰️
1401 S. Blue Island Ave.
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft | 1,096 tons |
|
111 W Illinois St
111 W Illinois St
| Office | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 1,832 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
337 339 W BARRY AVE
337 339 W BARRY AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 930 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
Atrium Village
303 W Division St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 1,170 tons
Highest 40%
|
|
Pensacola Place Apartments
4334 N Hazel St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 3,284 tons
Highest 12%
|
|
Reside on Barry
533 549 W BARRY AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 897 tons
Highest 49%
|
|
303 Erie Partners
303 W Erie St
| Office | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 497 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
221 E WALTON PL
221 E WALTON PL
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 408 tons
Lowest 17%
|
|
Carmen Marine Cooperative
🕰️
5030 N Marine Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft | 2,046 tons |
|
360 N Michigan Ave
360 N Michigan Ave
| Hotel | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 3,093 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
CNA Building
333 S Wabash Ave
| Office | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 11,171 tons
Highest 2%
|
|
7332 N. Damen
🕰️
7320 7332 N DAMEN AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.9 kg/sqft | 435 tons |
|
Curie Metropolitan HS -CPS
(CPS)
4975 S Archer Ave
| K-12 School | 7.9 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
| 3,292 tons
Highest 12%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data