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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.)
1700 East 56th Street
1700 E 56th St
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
2,383 tons
Highest 19%
3622 S STATE ST
3622 S STATE ST
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
484 tons
Lowest 25%
2532 2554 NARRAGANSETT AVE
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2532 2554 NARRAGANSETT AVE
Other - Mall
5.0 kg/sqft
343 tons
2014 2036 S MICHIGAN AVE
2014 2036 S MICHIGAN AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
703 tons
Lowest 40%
4840 N BROADWAY
4840 N BROADWAY
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
288 tons
Lowest 7%
Bellarmine Hall-ID#173888
🕰️
(Loyola)
6628 N SHERIDAN RD
Residence Hall/Dormitory
5.0 kg/sqft
427 tons
1061 W ROSEMONT AVE
1061 W ROSEMONT AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
403 tons
Lowest 17%
Sears
1900 W Lawrence Ave
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
499 tons
Lowest 26%
212 W Superior St
210 222 W Superior St
Office
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
465 tons
Lowest 23%
4336 4344 S DREXEL BLVD
4336 4344 S DREXEL BLVD
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
417 tons
Lowest 18%
7429 7441 S KINGSTON AVE
7429 7441 S KINGSTON AVE
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
315 tons
Lowest 9%
Optima Chicago Center
200 E Illinios St
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
2,845 tons
Highest 15%
Millenium on LaSalle
29 S LaSalle St
Multifamily Housing
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
942 tons
Highest 47%
Godfrey Hotel
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127 w Huron
Hotel
5.0 kg/sqft
884 tons
Lenart Regional Gifted Center -CPS
(CPS)
8101 S LaSalle St
K-12 School
5.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
302 tons
Lowest 8%
Page 171 of 226 (Building #2551 to #2565)

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