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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
740 W FULTON ST
740 W FULTON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft 
Highest 34%
| 1,194 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
The Letterman
410 S MORGAN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 1,644 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
Shore Crest Apartments
420 W WRIGHTWOOD AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 541 tons 
Lowest 30%
|
|
1260 N DEARBORN ST
1260 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 761 tons
Lowest 44%
|
|
7447 South Shore, LLC - South Shore Beach Apartments
7447 S South Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 2,458 tons
Highest 18%
|
|
Cyril Court Apartments
7130 S CYRIL CT
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 590 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Atwater Apartments
355 E Ohio St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 4,175 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
Earl Shapiro Hall
5800 S Stony Island Ave
| K-12 School | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 959 tons
Highest 46%
|
|
Astor House
1340 N Astor St
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 1,514 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
55 West Wacker Drive
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55 W Wacker Dr
| Office | 7.3 kg/sqft | 2,041 tons |
|
5999-Westin Chicago River North
320 N Dearborn Ave
| Hotel | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 3,501 tons
Highest 11%
|
|
The Goodman Theatre
170 N Dearborn Ave
| Performing Arts | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 1,371 tons
Highest 35%
|
|
Prairie House at Central Station
1515 S Prairie Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 1,984 tons
Highest 23%
|
|
228 South Wabash Building
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228 S Wabash Ave
| Office | 7.3 kg/sqft | 473 tons |
|
209 W Jackson Blvd
209 W Jackson Blvd
| Office | 7.3 kg/sqft
Highest 34%
| 1,190 tons
Highest 39%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data