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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.)
347 W Chestnut St
347 W Chestnut St
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
2,077 tons
Highest 22%
Haberdasher Square Lofts
728 W Jackson Blvd
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
2,123 tons
Highest 21%
Wolf Point West
🕰️
343 W. Wolf Point Plaza
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
2,141 tons
1500 N Clybourn Ave
1500 N Clybourn Ave
Mixed Use Property
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
1,292 tons
Highest 37%
4900 N Marine Dr
4900 N Marine Dr
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
558 tons
Lowest 31%
HighSchool_StFrancisdeSalesHS
🕰️
10155 S Ewing Ave
K-12 School
5.0 kg/sqft
463 tons
Parkside - 545
545 W Division
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
698 tons
Lowest 40%
Stone Scholastic Academy -CPS
(CPS)
6239 N Leavitt St
K-12 School
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
353 tons
Lowest 13%
Irene C Hernandez -CPS
(CPS)
5440 S St Louis Ave
K-12 School
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
633 tons
Lowest 36%
Gallistel Language Academy -CPS
(CPS)
10347 S Ewing Ave
K-12 School
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
474 tons
Lowest 24%
Hendricks C A, Thomas A -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
4320 S Princeton
K-12 School
5.0 kg/sqft
284 tons
Mayor Robert H Lawrence Apts
(CHA)
655 W 65th St
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
798 tons
Lowest 46%
Winston Tower #3
7061 N Kedzie Ave
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
1,986 tons
Highest 23%
212 W Washington Condo
212 W Washington St
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
1,398 tons
Highest 34%
Vue20 Condo Association
1845 S Michigan Ave
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
1,253 tons
Highest 38%
Page 170 of 226 (Building #2536 to #2550)

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