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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.)
One North State
🕰️
1 N State St
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
5,369 tons
10 S LaSalle St
10 S LaSalle St
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
5,709 tons
Highest 6%
7947 S SOUTH CHICAGO AVE
🕰️
7947 S SOUTH CHICAGO AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.5 kg/sqft
397 tons
Prudential Plaza
🚩
130 E Randolph St
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
17,965 tons
#20 Highest
123 N Wacker
123 N Wacker
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
3,615 tons
Highest 10%
111 West Jackson
111 W Jackson Blvd
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
4,365 tons
Highest 8%
401 N Michigan Ave
401 N Michigan Ave
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
6,730 tons
Highest 4%
Michigan Plaza
🚩
205 N Michigan Ave
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
14,620 tons
#35 Highest
333 W Wacker
333 W Wacker Dr
Office
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
6,608 tons
Highest 5%
Hubbard HS -CPS
(CPS)
6200 S Hamlin Ave
K-12 School
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
1,411 tons
Highest 34%
309 W 23RD ST
🕰️
309 W 23RD ST
Multifamily Housing
6.4 kg/sqft
336 tons
6445 W Strong Street
6445 W Strong Street
K-12 School
6.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 49%
373 tons
Lowest 14%
1135 W SHERIDAN RD
1135 W SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
6.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 49%
640 tons
Lowest 36%
Oriole Park Elementary School
5424 N Oketo Avenue
K-12 School
6.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 49%
492 tons
Lowest 26%
MRR 619 S LaSalle LLC
🕰️
619 S LaSalle
Multifamily Housing
6.4 kg/sqft
608 tons
Page 115 of 226 (Building #1711 to #1725)

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