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Electrify Chicago

An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data

According to the 2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan(opens in a new tab), 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(opens in a new tab). 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.)
Nash Elementary, Henry H -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
4837 W Erie St
K-12 School
6.8 kg/sqft
744 tons
Palmer Elementary, John M -CPS
(CPS)
5501 N Kenneth Ave
K-12 School
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
803 tons
Lowest 46%
Burke Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5356 S King Dr
K-12 School
6.8 kg/sqft
499 tons
Washington Elementary, Harold -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
9130 S University Ave
K-12 School
6.8 kg/sqft
523 tons
Reavis Specialty Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
834 E 50th St
K-12 School
6.8 kg/sqft
392 tons
Crown Community Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2128 S St Louis Ave
K-12 School
6.8 kg/sqft
430 tons
Lincoln Park Villas
1920 N Clark St
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
491 tons
Lowest 26%
1242 N Lake Shore Dr
1242 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
934 tons
Highest 47%
Harbor House Condominium Association
3200 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
2,909 tons
Highest 15%
Margaret Day Blake Apartments
(CHA)
2140 N Clark St
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
480 tons
Lowest 24%
Lancaster Condo Association
201 N Westshore Dr
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
2,207 tons
Highest 20%
2650 Lakeview Condominium Association
2650 N Lakeview Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
3,216 tons
Highest 12%
The Edge Lofts & Tower Condominium Association
210 S Des Plaines St
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
1,624 tons
Highest 29%
336 Wellington Association
336 W WELLINGTON AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
922 tons
Highest 48%
Prairie District Homes Tower Residences Condominiu
1717 S Prairie Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
1,971 tons
Highest 23%
Page 100 of 226 (Building #1486 to #1500)

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)