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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.)
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4423 N Sheridan Ave
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
520 tons
Lowest 28%
The Park Monroe Condominium Homes Association
65 E Monroe St
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
2,709 tons
Highest 16%
Young Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1434 N Parkside Ave
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
987 tons
StMonica_School
🕰️
5115 N Mont Clare Ave
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
303 tons
Eberhart Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3400 W 65th Place
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
918 tons
Highest 48%
Penn Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1616 S Avers Ave
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
892 tons
Grant Campus -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
145 S Campbell Ave
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
906 tons
Burnside Scholastic Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
648 E 91st Pl
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
693 tons
Henderson Elementary, CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5640 S Wolcott
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
452 tons
Air Force Academy (Abbott Elementary ) -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
3630 S Wells St
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
380 tons
Libby Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5300 S Loomis Blvd
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
650 tons
Ebinger Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
7350 W Pratt Ave
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
524 tons
Lowest 28%
Mitchell, Ellen -CPS
(CPS)
2233 W Ohio St
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
317 tons
Lowest 10%
1150 West Fullerton Bldg
(DePaul)
1150 W Fullerton Ave
College/University
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
293 tons
Lowest 8%
100 E Huron CA
100 E Huron St
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
2,822 tons
Highest 15%
Page 148 of 226 (Building #2206 to #2220)

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