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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Home Depot, #1986 47th & Western
4555 S Western Blvd
| Retail Store | 7.5 kg/sqft 
Highest 31%
| 779 tons 
Lowest 45%
|
|
1200 N LAKE SHORE DR
1200 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 724 tons
Lowest 42%
|
|
1519 1525 W WARREN BLVD
1519 1525 W WARREN BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 385 tons
Lowest 15%
|
|
Dearborn Plaza
(CHA)
1030 1032 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 592 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Granville Apartments, LLC
🕰️
6230 6236 N KENMORE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft | 1,105 tons |
|
640 N LaSalle Dr
640 N LaSalle St
| Office | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 2,111 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
151 N Franklin St
151 N Franklin St
| Office | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 7,127 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
1000 N LASALLE DR
1000 N LASALLE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 901 tons
Highest 49%
|
|
20 S Clark
20 S Clark St
| Office | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 3,467 tons
Highest 11%
|
|
The Jewelers Building
35 E Wacker Dr
| Office | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 4,971 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
161 North Clark
161 N Clark
| Office | 7.5 kg/sqft
Highest 31%
| 8,147 tons
Highest 3%
|
|
Perspectives Charter Schools - Auburn Gresham Campus
🕰️
(CPS)
8131 S May Street
| K-12 School | 7.5 kg/sqft | 2,256 tons |
|
Diversey Square Associates II
🕰️
3212 West Diversey Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft | 349 tons |
|
Dore Elementary School
🕰️
7134 W 65Th St
| K-12 School | 7.4 kg/sqft | 836 tons |
|
710 W. Grand Apartments
🕰️
710 W Grand Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft | 668 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data