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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1110 N Lake Shore Drive Apartments
1110 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 7.7 kg/sqft 
Highest 29%
| 1,615 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
Stem Magnet Academy / Old Thomas Jefferson -CPS
(CPS)
1522 W Fillmore Blvd
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 537 tons 
Lowest 29%
|
|
Holy Name Cathedral Parish
🕰️
735 N State St
| Other | 7.7 kg/sqft | 1,488 tons |
|
Mcpherson Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
4728 N Wolcott Ave
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 1,199 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
Mozart -CPS
(CPS)
2200 N Hamlin Ave
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 714 tons
Lowest 41%
|
|
Orozco Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1940 W 18th St
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft | 828 tons |
|
Taylor, Douglas -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
9912 S Avenue H
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft | 675 tons |
|
Lavizzo Elementary - CPS
(CPS)
137 W 108th Pl
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 642 tons
Lowest 36%
|
|
Mccormick -CPS
(CPS)
2712 S Sawyer Ave
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 773 tons
Lowest 44%
|
|
Christopher Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5042 S Artesian Ave
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 589 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Jungman Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
1746 S Miller St
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 538 tons
Lowest 29%
|
|
Foster Park Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
8500 S Wood
| K-12 School | 7.7 kg/sqft | 522 tons |
|
40 E Oak St
40 E Oak St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 1,181 tons
Highest 40%
|
|
Erie on the Park Condominium Association
510 W Erie St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 1,502 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
564 W Randolph St
564 W Randolph St
| Office | 7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
| 927 tons
Highest 48%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data