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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
181 West Madison
181 W Madison St
| Office | 7.6 kg/sqft 
Highest 30%
| 8,271 tons
Highest 3%
|
|
Presidents Plaza 2
8700 W Bryn Mawr Ave
| Office | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 3,370 tons
Highest 11%
|
|
510 534 W ADDISON ST
510 534 W ADDISON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 7.6 kg/sqft
Highest 30%
| 525 tons 
Lowest 28%
|
|
630 N Franklin Condominium Association
630 N Franklin St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 1,677 tons
Highest 28%
|
|
2950 North Sheridan
2950 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 1,012 tons
Highest 44%
|
|
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(Loyola)
1001 1025 W Loyola Ave
| College/University | 7.5 kg/sqft | 617 tons |
|
North Park Village Apartments - Building G
5801 N Pulaski Rd - Bldg G
| Residential Care Facility | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 1,440 tons
Highest 33%
|
|
Argyle Apartments
840 850 W Argyle St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 444 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
Gateway Center
10808 - 10830 S Doty Ave W
| Retail Store | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 500 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
Betty Shabazz Intl Charter / Barbra A Sizemore -CPS
(CPS)
6936 S Hermitage Ave
| K-12 School | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 525 tons
Lowest 28%
|
|
Payton College Prep HS -CPS
(CPS)
1010 N Wells St
| K-12 School | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 1,619 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
Dodge -CPS
(CPS)
2651 W Washington Blvd
| Office | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 540 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
Farnsworth Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5414 N Linder Ave
| K-12 School | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 615 tons
Lowest 35%
|
|
Hammond Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2819 W 21st Pl
| K-12 School | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 446 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
Arts & Letters Hall
(DePaul)
2315 N Kenmore Ave
| College/University | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 837 tons
Lowest 48%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data