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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.)
550 W. Fulton Condominium Association
550 W Fulton
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
302 tons
Lowest 9%
Palmer Square Apts (2 of 6)
2128-40 N Kedzie
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
1,001 tons
Highest 45%
Smyser -CPS
(CPS)
4310 N Melvina Ave
K-12 School
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
527 tons
Lowest 29%
Edwards Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
4815 S Karlov Ave
K-12 School
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
822 tons
Lowest 47%
Belding Elementary, Hiram H - CPS
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(CPS)
4257 N Tripp Ave
K-12 School
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
329 tons
Lowest 11%
Alcott Elementary, Louisa May -CPS
(CPS)
2625 N Orchard St
K-12 School
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
395 tons
Lowest 16%
Park Lincoln by Reside
2470 N Clark St
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
699 tons
Lowest 40%
Lathrop Homes
(CHA)
2000 W Diversey Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
2,313 tons
Highest 19%
Steinmetz Academic Center HS -CPS
(CPS)
3030 N Mobile Ave
K-12 School
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
1,859 tons
Highest 25%
Calumet Park
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9801 S Avenue G
Other - Recreation
4.7 kg/sqft
271 tons
50 East Bellevue Condo Association
50 E Bellevue Pl
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
1,125 tons
Highest 41%
933 Van Buren Condominium Association
933 W Van Buren St
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
1,401 tons
Highest 34%
1250 N Dearborn Condominium Association
1250 N DEARBORN ST
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
927 tons
Highest 48%
4300 N MARINE DR
4300 N MARINE DR
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
917 tons
Highest 48%
3240 N LAKE SHORE DR
3240 N LAKE SHORE DR
Multifamily Housing
4.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 20%
1,196 tons
Highest 39%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)