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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.)
Albany Terrace Apts
(CHA)
3030 W 21st Pl
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
1,332 tons
Highest 36%
Imperial Towers Condominium
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4250 N Marine Dr
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
5,798 tons
Highest 6%
565 W Quincy
565 W Quincy St
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
1,951 tons
Highest 24%
Edgewater Beach Apartments Corporation
5555 N Sheridan Rd
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
3,148 tons
Highest 13%
5901 N SHERIDAN RD
5901 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
1,226 tons
Highest 38%
240 N Ashland Ave
240 N Ashland Ave
Office
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
418 tons
Lowest 18%
1313 W RANDOLPH ST
1313 W RANDOLPH ST
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
458 tons
Lowest 22%
Hampton House
1715 1733 E 53RD ST
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
906 tons
Highest 49%
St. Scholastica Monastery / UNO Rogers Park Elementary and High School
7416 N Ridge Rd
K-12 School
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
1,041 tons
Highest 44%
1090
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1601 N Harlem Ave
Retail Store
5.1 kg/sqft
1,513 tons
2970 N SHERIDAN RD
2970 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
1,244 tons
Highest 38%
North & Kostner
4501 W North Ave
Retail Store
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
1,200 tons
Highest 39%
Irish American Heritage Center
🕰️
4626 North Knox
K-12 School
5.1 kg/sqft
409 tons
100 W Chestnut
100 W Chestnut St
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
1,490 tons
Highest 31%
Alta at K Station
555 W Kinzie St
Multifamily Housing
5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 26%
4,722 tons
Highest 7%
Page 168 of 226 (Building #2506 to #2520)

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