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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.)
Elston Industrial lofts, Llc
1737-1747 N Elston Ave
Mixed Use Property
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
509 tons
Lowest 27%
Chicago Indoor Sports
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(Chicago)
3900 S Ashland Ave
Other - Recreation
6.1 kg/sqft
551 tons
2630 N NARRAGANSETT AVE
2630 N NARRAGANSETT AVE
Wholesale Club/Supercenter
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
848 tons
Lowest 49%
Sheridan Point Condominium Association
6325 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
951 tons
Highest 47%
1430 1440 S MICHIGAN AVE
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1430 1440 S MICHIGAN AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
658 tons
6927 6939 S CRANDON AVE
6927 6939 S CRANDON AVE
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
684 tons
Lowest 39%
1555 N DEARBORN PKWY
1555 N DEARBORN PKWY
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
768 tons
Lowest 44%
1 E SCHILLER ST
1 E SCHILLER ST
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
988 tons
Highest 46%
14 West Elm Apartments
12 18 W ELM ST
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
777 tons
Lowest 44%
444 454 W MELROSE ST
444 454 W MELROSE ST
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
351 tons
Lowest 13%
33 N Dearborn
33 N Dearborn St
Office
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
2,287 tons
Highest 20%
Northern Trust Headquarters
50 S LaSalle St
Financial Office
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
3,538 tons
Highest 11%
199 East Lake Shore Drive
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199 E LAKE SHORE DR
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
381 tons
1734 N PAULINA ST
1734 N PAULINA ST
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
579 tons
Lowest 32%
17 N State LLC
17 N State St
Office
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
2,506 tons
Highest 17%
Page 129 of 226 (Building #1921 to #1935)

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