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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.)
Burbank Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2035 N Mobile Ave
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
901 tons
Highest 49%
Tanner Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
7350 S Evans Ave
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
288 tons
Lowest 7%
Till, Emmett Louis Math & Science -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
6543 S Champlain Ave
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
730 tons
Gresham Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
8524 S Green St
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
609 tons
Otoole Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
6550 S Seeley Ave
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
521 tons
Carter Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5740 S Michigan Ave
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
469 tons
Peck Elementary-CPS
(CPS)
3826 W 58th St
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
640 tons
Lowest 36%
Lozano Bilingual Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1501 N Greenview Ave
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
311 tons
Jamieson Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5650 N Mozart St
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
605 tons
Lowest 34%
Jahn World Language -CPS
(CPS)
3149 N Wolcott Ave
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
447 tons
Lowest 21%
Gompers Fine Arts Option Elementary - CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
12302 S State St
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
405 tons
Goodlow Elementary Magnet -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2040 W 62nd St
K-12 School
5.4 kg/sqft
362 tons
The Madison at Racine/1200 Madison Racine LLC
1164 W Madison
Multifamily Housing
5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
1,356 tons
Highest 35%
320 322 W OAKDALE AVE
320 322 W OAKDALE AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
712 tons
Lowest 41%
State & Chestnut
845 N State St
Multifamily Housing
5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 31%
2,441 tons
Highest 18%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)