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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.)
The Lofts at 1800 Condominium Association
1800 W Grace St
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
882 tons
Lowest 50%
The Churchill Condominium Association
1255 N State Parkway
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
533 tons
Lowest 29%
Archer Place Condo Association
2272 S Archer Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
338 tons
Lowest 11%
North Center Senior Housing, NFP (St. Vincent DePaul Residence)
4040 N Oakley St
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
404 tons
Lowest 17%
Bank Note Place Condominium Association, Inc
120 E Cullerton St
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
841 tons
Lowest 48%
3611 W Montrose Ave
3611 W Montrose Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
241 tons
Lowest 4%
Crilly Court Condominium Association
1717 N Crilly Ct
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
313 tons
Lowest 9%
Natalie Salmon House
7320 N Sheridan Rd
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
245 tons
Lowest 4%
Camras Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3000 N Mango Ave
K-12 School
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
597 tons
Lowest 33%
Bennett Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
10115 S Prairie Ave
K-12 School
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
326 tons
Lowest 10%
Newberry Math/Science Academy -CPS
(CPS)
708 W Willow St
K-12 School
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
362 tons
Lowest 14%
Neil Elementary, Jane A -CPS
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(CPS)
8555 S Michigan Ave
K-12 School
4.8 kg/sqft
348 tons
Clifton-Fullerton Hall
2350 N Clifton Ave
College/University
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
443 tons
Lowest 21%
3520 Lake Shore Drive CA
3520 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
1,280 tons
Highest 37%
Mary Jane Richardson-Jones Apts
(CHA)
4930 S Langley Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 21%
716 tons
Lowest 41%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)