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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.)
Fort Dearborn Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
9001 S Throop St
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
472 tons
Lowest 23%
Otis Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
525 N Armour St
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
539 tons
Nixon -CPS
(CPS)
2121 N Keeler Ave
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
736 tons
Lowest 42%
Reilly Es -CPS
(CPS)
3650 W School St
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
654 tons
Lowest 37%
Mark Skinner Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
111 S Throop St
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
859 tons
Lowest 49%
Coonley, John C -CPS
(CPS)
4046 N Leavitt St
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
609 tons
Lowest 34%
Chavez, Cesar E Multicultural Academic Center Es -CPS
(CPS)
4747 S Marshfield Ave
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
553 tons
Lowest 30%
Stockton Specialty, Joseph -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
4420 N Beacon St
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
639 tons
Marsh Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
9804 S Exchange
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
806 tons
Lowest 46%
1448 Lake Shore Dr
1448 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
996 tons
Highest 45%
Jones College Prep, William - CPS
(CPS)
600 S State St
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
2,195 tons
Highest 21%
The Private Residences of Ritchie Court
1313 N Ritchie Ct
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
1,109 tons
Highest 42%
Lakeside on the Park Condominium
1250 S INDIANA AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
1,177 tons
Highest 40%
801 South Plymouth Condo Association
801 S Plymouth Ct
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
1,434 tons
Highest 33%
Lake Point Tower
505 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
8,908 tons
Highest 3%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)