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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
142 E Ontario St
142 E Ontario St
| Office | 7.6 kg/sqft 
Highest 30%
| 1,037 tons
Highest 44%
|
|
The Heritage at Millennium Park
130 N Garland Ct
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 7,019 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
Maudele Brown Bousfield Apts
(CHA)
4945 S Cottage Grove Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 510 tons 
Lowest 27%
|
|
The Residences of 41 E. 8th Street
41 E 8th St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 2,247 tons
Highest 20%
|
|
Hollywood Towers Condo Association
5701 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 4,247 tons
Highest 8%
|
|
Vision On State Condominium Association
1255 S State St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 2,108 tons
Highest 22%
|
|
55 East Erie Condominium Association
55 E Erie St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 4,177 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
130 S Jefferson St
130 S Jefferson St
| Office | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 600 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Home Depot Store #8598
6211 N LINCOLN AVE
| Retail Store | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 873 tons
Lowest 49%
|
|
3314 Lake Shore Condominium Association
3314 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 452 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
Burnham 600
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600 W Jackson Blvd
| Office | 7.6 kg/sqft | 794 tons |
|
832 890 W 103RD ST
832 890 W 103RD ST
| Senior Living Community | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 500 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
Resurrection College Prep High School
7500 W Talcott Ave
| K-12 School | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 1,297 tons
Highest 37%
|
|
1120 N LaSalle Apartments
1120 N LaSalle St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 1,555 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
Grand Kingsbury LLC
520 N Kingsbury St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 3,776 tons
Highest 10%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data