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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Knight Buildling
549 W Randolph St
| Office | 7.5 kg/sqft 
Highest 31%
| 786 tons 
Lowest 45%
|
|
Park Place Tower I CA
🚩
655 W Irving Park Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 7,378 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago
🚩
401 N Wabash Ave
| Mixed Use Property | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 15,949 tons #25 Highest
|
|
2921 S MICHIGAN AVE
2921 S MICHIGAN AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 501 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
Kinzie Station
330 N Jefferson Ct
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 1,694 tons
Highest 27%
|
|
East WrigleyView Village Condominiums
737 W CORNELIA AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 381 tons
Lowest 15%
|
|
Residence Hall and Student Center: Catholic Theological Union
🕰️
5401 S CORNELL AVE
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 7.5 kg/sqft | 685 tons |
|
Halsted Flats
3740 N Halsted St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 1,729 tons
Highest 27%
|
|
65 E SCOTT ST
65 E SCOTT ST
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 1,641 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
North Harbor Tower
175 N Harbor Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 5,796 tons
Highest 6%
|
|
Foxboro Properties, LLC
6201 S Emerald Dr
| Other - Public Services | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 603 tons
Lowest 34%
|
|
The Buckingham
🕰️
59 E. Van Buren
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 7.5 kg/sqft | 1,578 tons |
|
Travelodge by Wyndham Downtown Chicago
🕰️
61 67 E HARRISON ST
| Hotel | 7.5 kg/sqft | 1,047 tons |
|
2601 2607 N MILWAUKEE AVE
2601 2607 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 343 tons
Lowest 12%
|
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Kimball Station
🕰️
4730 N Kimball Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft | 561 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data