Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
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. 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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
6342 S Green
6342 S Green
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft 
Lowest 31%
| 502 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
845 W MADISON ST
845 W MADISON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 2,692 tons 
Highest 16%
|
|
Balmoral Condo
2606-2610 W Balmoral Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 282 tons
Lowest 7%
|
|
Gallery on Wells
🕰️
637 N. Wells Street
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft | 2,388 tons |
|
Madison Aberdeen
20 22 N Aberdeen St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 451 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
Cicero & George
4800 W GEORGE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 415 tons
Lowest 18%
|
|
MILA
🕰️
200 N Michigan Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft | 2,756 tons |
|
Powell Paideia Elementary
(CPS)
7511 S South Shore Dr
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 614 tons
Lowest 35%
|
|
Acorn Lofts
🕰️
1017 W. Washington Blvd.
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft | 781 tons |
|
AMLI Lofts Polk
111 W Polk St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 1,095 tons
Highest 42%
|
|
420 W Surf St
420 W Surf St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 304 tons
Lowest 9%
|
|
Reside on Wellington
510-24 W Wellington
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 388 tons
Lowest 16%
|
|
Durkin Park Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
8445 S Kolin Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 469 tons
Lowest 23%
|
|
Ogden Intl HS -CPS
(CPS)
1250 W Erie St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 503 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
Robert Healy Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3010 S Parnell Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
| 616 tons
Lowest 35%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data