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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.)
Catherine Courts Condominium Association of Chicago (5306-5310 N. Chester Ave.)
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5306 - 5310 N. Chester Ave.
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
572 tons
Hawthorne House Apartments
3450 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
2,989 tons
Highest 14%
East Ohio LLC
420 E Ohio St
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
1,836 tons
Highest 25%
1936 N Clark
1936 N Clark
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
991 tons
Highest 45%
4444 W LAWRENCE AVE
4444 W LAWRENCE AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
475 tons
Lowest 24%
1316 1326 N STATE PKWY
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1316 1326 N STATE PKWY
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
862 tons
1366 Dearborn Condominium
1366 N DEARBORN ST
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
437 tons
Lowest 20%
2024 2030 S WABASH AVE
2024 2030 S WABASH AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
351 tons
Lowest 12%
6300 6326 N SHERIDAN RD
6300 6326 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
785 tons
Lowest 45%
1217 1227 W LUNT AVE
1217 1227 W LUNT AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
336 tons
Lowest 11%
4572 N MILWAUKEE AVE
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4572 N MILWAUKEE AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
292 tons
1100 N LASALLE DR
1100 N LASALLE DR
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
720 tons
Lowest 41%
344 358 W OAKDALE AVE
344 358 W OAKDALE AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
614 tons
Lowest 35%
Mireles Academy, Arnold -CPS
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(CPS)
9000 S Exchange Ave
K-12 School
5.6 kg/sqft
807 tons
2322 2326 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
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2322 2326 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.6 kg/sqft
448 tons
Page 150 of 226 (Building #2236 to #2250)

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