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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.)
531 535 W DEMING PL
531 535 W DEMING PL
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
374 tons
Lowest 14%
1548 1558 W JUNEWAY TER
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1548 1558 W JUNEWAY TER
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
337 tons
5439 5443 N KENMORE AVE
5439 5443 N KENMORE AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
298 tons
Lowest 8%
6150 N KENMORE AVE
6150 N KENMORE AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
419 tons
Lowest 18%
Wrigley Building
410 N MICHIGAN AVE
Office
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
3,759 tons
Highest 10%
550 W Washington
550 W Washington
Office
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
2,228 tons
Highest 20%
Michael A. Bilandic Building
160 N LaSalle St
Office
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
2,661 tons
Highest 16%
One South Dearborn
1 S Dearborn
Office
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
5,417 tons
Highest 6%
7131 7143 S YATES BLVD
7131 7143 S YATES BLVD
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
399 tons
Lowest 17%
1900 1910 W FARWELL AVE
1900 1910 W FARWELL AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
336 tons
Lowest 11%
Lindblom College Prep -CPS
(CPS)
6130 S Wolcott Ave
K-12 School
5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 37%
1,742 tons
Highest 27%
Schiff Residences
1244 North Clybourn
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
358 tons
Lowest 13%
City Hyde Park
5105 S HARPER AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
2,062 tons
Highest 22%
Residences at The Vic
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3140 N Sheffield Ave
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
659 tons
2007 N Sedgwick Condominium Association
2007 N Sedgwick
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
282 tons
Lowest 7%
Page 147 of 226 (Building #2191 to #2205)

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