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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.)
332 Property LLC
332 S Michigan Ave
Office
6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
3,509 tons
Highest 11%
300 South Wacker Property LLC
300 S Wacker Dr
Office
6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
4,014 tons
Highest 9%
230 W Monroe
230 W Monroe
Office
6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
4,459 tons
Highest 8%
Leo Burnett Building
🚩
35 W Wacker Dr
Office
6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
9,237 tons
Highest 3%
311 S Wacker
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311 S Wacker
Office
6.6 kg/sqft
Highest 47%
9,513 tons
Highest 3%
901 905 W ARGYLE ST
901 905 W ARGYLE ST
Multifamily Housing
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
419 tons
Lowest 18%
South Park Plaza
🕰️
2600 S KING DR
Multifamily Housing
6.5 kg/sqft
759 tons
10538 S Langley Avenue
10538 S Langley Avenue
K-12 School
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
376 tons
Lowest 15%
110 N WACKER DR
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110 N WACKER DR
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
11,304 tons
Highest 2%
Everett McKinley Dirksen Elementary School
8601 W Foster Avenue
K-12 School
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
770 tons
Lowest 44%
1251 S. Michigan Avenue
🕰️
1251 S. Michigan Avenue
Multifamily Housing
6.5 kg/sqft
4,028 tons
The Burnham at Woodlawn Park
6134 S. Cottage Grove Avenue
Multifamily Housing
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
478 tons
Lowest 24%
Aberdeen
🕰️
171 N Aberdeen St
Mixed Use Property
6.5 kg/sqft
1,008 tons
1140 S Wabash Ave
1140 S Wabash Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
1,919 tons
Highest 24%
MODE Apartments
🕰️
2501 W Armitage Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.5 kg/sqft
498 tons
Page 111 of 226 (Building #1651 to #1665)

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