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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Okeeffe Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
6940 S Merrill Ave
| K-12 School | 6.9 kg/sqft 
Highest 41%
| 659 tons 
Lowest 38%
|
|
Tilton-CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
223 N Keeler Ave
| K-12 School | 6.9 kg/sqft | 723 tons |
|
Goethe Elementary, J W Von -CPS
(CPS)
2236 N Rockwell Ave
| K-12 School | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 554 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
Mayer -CPS
(CPS)
2250 N Clifton Ave
| K-12 School | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 506 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
Mcclellan Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3527 S Wallace St
| K-12 School | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 399 tons
Lowest 17%
|
|
Ashe Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
8507 S Ingleside
| K-12 School | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 379 tons
Lowest 15%
|
|
Belden-Racine Hall
(DePaul)
2311 N Racine Ave
| College/University | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 473 tons
Lowest 23%
|
|
Paramount Lofts Condominium Association
1645 W Ogden
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 1,906 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
Ada S Dennison-McKlinley Apts
(CHA)
661 E 69th St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 571 tons
Lowest 32%
|
|
Sulzer Library
(Chicago)
4455 N Lincoln Ave
| Library | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 576 tons
Lowest 32%
|
|
Americana Towers Condominium
1636 N Wells St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 2,469 tons
Highest 18%
|
|
Winston Towers No. 5
7141 N Kedzie Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 1,993 tons
Highest 23%
|
|
River Plaza
405 N Wabash Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 5,047 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
Shoreline Towers CA
6301 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 3,051 tons
Highest 14%
|
|
R&D 659 CA
659 W Randolph St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 2,114 tons
Highest 21%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data