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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.)
Farcroft by the Lake
1337 W Fargo Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
566 tons
Lowest 31%
Coastland Apartments., Inc.
🏆
2666 E 73rd St
Multifamily Housing
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
310 tons
Lowest 9%
223 W Erie St
223 W Erie St
Office
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
328 tons
Lowest 10%
Pilsen Comm Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1420 W 17th St
K-12 School
4.9 kg/sqft
404 tons
StSabina_School
🕰️
7801 S Throop St
K-12 School
4.9 kg/sqft
357 tons
Budlong Elementary, Lyman A -CPS
(CPS)
2701 W Foster Ave
K-12 School
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
501 tons
Lowest 26%
Oglesby -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7646 S Green St
K-12 School
4.9 kg/sqft
375 tons
Lincoln Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
615 W Kemper Pl
K-12 School
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
563 tons
Lowest 31%
Hinton Elementary, William Augustus -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
646 W 71st St
K-12 School
4.9 kg/sqft
355 tons
330 N Clinton
330 N Clinton St
Multifamily Housing
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
315 tons
Lowest 9%
372 W Ontario St
372 W Ontario St
Office
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
245 tons
Lowest 4%
Chicago Residential Inc.
2440 N Lakeview Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
1,229 tons
Highest 38%
La Follette Park
🕰️
1333 N Laramie Ave
Other - Recreation
4.9 kg/sqft
318 tons
Malibu Condominium
6007 N Sheridan Rd
Multifamily Housing
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
2,504 tons
Highest 17%
6 N Michigan Ave
6 N Michigan Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 23%
1,123 tons
Highest 41%
Page 174 of 226 (Building #2596 to #2610)

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