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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.)
Yards Forman Mills
🕰️
4520 S Damen Ave
Retail Store
6.3 kg/sqft
335 tons
Crane Achievement Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2245 W Jackson Blvd
K-12 School
6.3 kg/sqft
2,633 tons
2930 N SHERIDAN RD
2930 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
1,529 tons
Highest 31%
Grandville Tower Condominiums
6166 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
1,219 tons
Highest 39%
222 E PEARSON ST
222 E PEARSON ST
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
1,392 tons
Highest 34%
Lowell House
88 W Schiller St
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
1,770 tons
Highest 26%
5301 5317 S HYDE PARK BLVD
5301 5317 S HYDE PARK BLVD
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
1,493 tons
Highest 31%
6748 6750 N ASHLAND AVE
6748 6750 N ASHLAND AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
374 tons
Lowest 14%
1200 W Pratt Blvd
1200 W Pratt Blvd
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
554 tons
Lowest 30%
Times Square Apartments
🕰️
869 W BUENA AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
891 tons
5316 5320 S DORCHESTER AVE
5316 5320 S DORCHESTER AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
385 tons
Lowest 16%
The Wyndham
🕰️
5230 5244 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
1,264 tons
2756 2760 N PINE GROVE AVE
2756 2760 N PINE GROVE AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
847 tons
Lowest 48%
820 S PARK TER
820 S PARK TER
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 48%
989 tons
Highest 45%
125 E 21ST ST
🕰️
125 E 21ST ST
Multifamily Housing
6.3 kg/sqft
424 tons
Page 120 of 226 (Building #1786 to #1800)

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