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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
990 North Lake Shore Drive
990 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft 
Highest 33%
| 2,188 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
5445 Edgewater Plaza Condo Association
5445 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 3,165 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
El Lago Condominium Association
6157 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 2,191 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
The Pinnacle
21 E Huron St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 4,549 tons
Highest 8%
|
|
Museum Park Tower 1 Condominium Association
1322 S Prairie Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 2,070 tons
Highest 22%
|
|
41-51 N Central Ave
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51 N CENTRAL AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft | 407 tons  |
|
1104 S Wabash Ave
1104 S Wabash Ave
| College/University | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 1,225 tons
Highest 38%
|
|
Gray Hotel - Kimpton Hotel
39 S LaSalle St
| Hotel | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 1,766 tons
Highest 26%
|
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The Van der Rohe
2933 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 1,432 tons
Highest 33%
|
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1501 N STATE PKWY
1501 N STATE PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 1,243 tons
Highest 38%
|
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2101 South Michigan Apartments
2101 S Michigan Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 1,522 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
Medical District Apartments
901 903 S Ashland Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 2,542 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
Chicago Mag Mile Courtyard
165 E Ontario St
| Hotel | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 2,126 tons
Highest 21%
|
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The Shoreham Apartments
400 E South Water St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft
Highest 33%
| 3,204 tons
Highest 12%
|
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3318 N LAKE SHORE DR
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3318 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 7.4 kg/sqft | 856 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data