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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1212 Lake Shore Drive Condominium
1212 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft 
Highest 41%
| 2,624 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
1300 Lake Shore Drive Condominium Association
1300 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 2,533 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
Harper Square Cooperative
4800 - 4850 S Lake Park Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 4,338 tons
Highest 8%
|
|
Waterford Condominium
4170 N Marine Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 2,322 tons
Highest 19%
|
|
Washington Courts
5424 W WASHINGTON BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 748 tons 
Lowest 43%
|
|
1430 N LAKE SHORE DR
1430 N LAKE SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 806 tons
Lowest 46%
|
|
ACME Hotel Company
15 E Ohio St
| Hotel | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 553 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
Lincoln Park Plaza
600 W Diversey Pkwy
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 1,867 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
SoNo East
840 W Blackhawk St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 2,190 tons
Highest 21%
|
|
Lakeview East Cooperative
707 W Waveland Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 1,619 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
Rice Building
815 W Van Buren St
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 555 tons
Lowest 31%
|
|
29 N Wacker Dr
29 N Wacker Dr
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 947 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
Howard & Western Shopping Center
7510 - 7578 N Western Ave
| Strip Mall | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 481 tons
Lowest 25%
|
|
West Chatham Plaza
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122 - 160 W. 79th
| Strip Mall | 6.9 kg/sqft | 468 tons |
|
1 - 15 E Oak St
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1 - 15 E Oak St
| Retail Store | 6.9 kg/sqft | 651 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data