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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.)
Aon Center
🚩
200 E Randolph St
Office
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
19,331 tons
#14 Highest
1818 W PETERSON
1818 W PETERSON
Multifamily Housing
6.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
672 tons
Lowest 38%
DePaul College Prep
🕰️
3633 N. California
K-12 School
6.1 kg/sqft
1,236 tons
The Sinclair
1201 N LaSalle Street
Multifamily Housing
6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
3,558 tons
Highest 10%
Aloft Chicago Mag Mile (Marriott)
🕰️
243 E Ontario St
Hotel
6.0 kg/sqft
1,147 tons
Vue53
🕰️
1330 E 53RD ST
Multifamily Housing
6.0 kg/sqft
1,685 tons
Town Hall
3600 N Halsted St
Multifamily Housing
6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
550 tons
Lowest 30%
Catherine Courts Condominium Association of Chicago (8439-8503 W. Catherine Ave)
🕰️
8439-8503 W. Catherine Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.0 kg/sqft
906 tons
Reside on Roscoe
532 W Roscoe
Multifamily Housing
6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
282 tons
Lowest 7%
Grace Street
635 W Grace St
Multifamily Housing
6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
761 tons
Lowest 44%
Henry Crown Field House
5550 S University Ave
Fitness Center/Health Club/Gym
6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
872 tons
Lowest 49%
900 North Franklin
🕰️
900 N Franklin St
Office
6.0 kg/sqft
580 tons
Stewart School Lofts
🕰️
4525 N Kenmore Ave
Multifamily Housing
6.0 kg/sqft
565 tons
Portage Park Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5330 W Berteau Ave
K-12 School
6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
877 tons
Lowest 50%
Chicago Bulls College Prep
🕰️
(CPS)
2040 W Adams St
K-12 School
6.0 kg/sqft
693 tons
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)