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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Westside Research Office Building (WROB)
1747 W ROOSEVELT RD
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft 
Highest 41%
| 1,070 tons
Highest 43%
|
|
1745 N KEYSTONE AVE
1745 N KEYSTONE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 702 tons 
Lowest 40%
|
|
1330 N DEARBORN ST
1330 N DEARBORN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 507 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
Federal Railroad Retirement Board
844 W Rush St
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 2,628 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
One Magnificent Mile
980 N Michigan Ave
| Mixed Use Property | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 7,057 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
33 N LaSalle St
33 N LaSalle St
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 3,281 tons
Highest 12%
|
|
Illinois Masonic Medical Office Center
3000 N HALSTED ST
| Medical Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 990 tons
Highest 45%
|
|
125 South Wacker
125 S Wacker Dr
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 4,402 tons
Highest 8%
|
|
541 N Fairbanks
541 N Fairbanks
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 4,885 tons
Highest 7%
|
|
RICHARD J. DALEY CENTER
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50 W Washington
| Courthouse | 6.9 kg/sqft | 10,570 tons |
|
222 South Riverside Plaza
222 S Riverside Plz
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 8,554 tons
Highest 3%
|
|
500 W Monroe
500 W Monroe
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 8,002 tons
Highest 4%
|
|
Museum Walk Apartments
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5541 S EVERETT AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft | 520 tons |
|
369 W GRAND AVE
369 W GRAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 2,872 tons
Highest 15%
|
|
1375 Fulton
1375 Fulton
| Office | 6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
| 2,695 tons
Highest 16%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data