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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.)
CICS Loomis
9535 S Loomis St
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
324 tons
Lowest 10%
Catholic Charities Mathew Manor
271 N Albany Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
327 tons
Lowest 10%
Suder Campus Montessori -CPS
(CPS)
2022 W Washington Blvd
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
445 tons
Lowest 21%
May Elementary Community Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
512 S Lavergne Ave
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
678 tons
Fulton Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5300 S Hermitage Ave
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
595 tons
Boone Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
6710 N Washtenaw Ave
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
576 tons
Lowest 32%
Manierre Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1420 N Hudson Ave
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
541 tons
Madison Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7401 S Dorchester
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
422 tons
Hitch Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5625 N Mcvicker Ave
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
511 tons
Lowest 27%
Excel-Woodlawn-CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7530 S SOUTH SHORE DR
K-12 School
6.2 kg/sqft
457 tons
Raffaello Condominium Association
🕰️
201 E Delaware St
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
882 tons
210 E Pearson
210 E Pearson
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
644 tons
Lowest 37%
Hattie Callner
(CHA)
855 W Aldine Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
711 tons
Lowest 41%
Broadway Armory
🕰️
5917 N Broadway Ave
Other - Recreation
6.2 kg/sqft
967 tons
10 E. Delaware Condominium Association
10 E Delaware Pl
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
2,293 tons
Highest 19%
Page 123 of 226 (Building #1831 to #1845)

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