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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.)
630 644 W ADDISON ST
630 644 W ADDISON ST
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
314 tons
Lowest 9%
Webster Square Apartments
🕰️
558 W WEBSTER AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
484 tons
4848 N KEDZIE AVE
4848 N KEDZIE AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
340 tons
Lowest 11%
410 E BOWEN AVE
🕰️
410 E BOWEN AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
754 tons
4101 4115 S MICHIGAN AVE
4101 4115 S MICHIGAN AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
311 tons
Lowest 9%
Waveland Gardens
🕰️
626-630 West Waveland
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
345 tons
1040 W HOLLYWOOD AVE
1040 W HOLLYWOOD AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
378 tons
Lowest 15%
180 N LaSalle St
180 N LaSalle St
Office
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
5,356 tons
Highest 6%
Daley Center
(DePaul)
14 E Jackson Blvd
College/University
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
2,293 tons
Highest 19%
018110 - Union Tower, LLC
550 W Van Buren
Office
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
2,070 tons
Highest 22%
333 N Michigan
333 N Michigan Ave
Office
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
2,240 tons
Highest 20%
Fine Arts Building
408 410 S Michigan Ave
Office
6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 46%
993 tons
Highest 45%
2071 N Southport Avenue
2071 N Southport Avenue
Office
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
501 tons
Lowest 26%
Marquee at Block 37
25 West Randolph Street
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
3,583 tons
Highest 10%
NEMA Chicago
1200 S Indiana Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
6,791 tons
Highest 4%
Page 125 of 226 (Building #1861 to #1875)

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