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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.)
5650 N KENMORE AVE
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(CHA)
5650 N KENMORE AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
689 tons
425 427 W ROSCOE ST
425 427 W ROSCOE ST
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
231 tons
Lowest 4%
StJuliana_School
🕰️
7400 W Touhy
K-12 School
4.6 kg/sqft
313 tons
1824 N SPAULDING AVE
1824 N SPAULDING AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
302 tons
Lowest 8%
Inter- American Magnet -CPS
(CPS)
851 W Waveland Ave
K-12 School
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
512 tons
Lowest 27%
500 Lake Shore Drive
500 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
3,324 tons
Highest 12%
Roosevelt Collection
150 W Roosevelt Rd
Mixed Use Property
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
4,991 tons
Highest 7%
Patrick F Sullivan Apts
(CHA)
1633 W Madison St
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
1,679 tons
Highest 28%
1516 N STATE PKWY
1516 N STATE PKWY
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
484 tons
Lowest 25%
Chase Tower Chicago
🕰️
10 S Dearborn St
Financial Office
4.6 kg/sqft
11,190 tons
300 310 W GRAND AVE
300 310 W GRAND AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
440 tons
Lowest 20%
525 W DEMING PL
525 W DEMING PL
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
432 tons
Lowest 20%
4001 S Ellis Ave
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4001 S Ellis Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
282 tons
1534 1542 N LAKE SHORE DR
1534 1542 N LAKE SHORE DR
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
642 tons
Lowest 36%
6800 N CALIFORNIA AVE
6800 N CALIFORNIA AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 18%
572 tons
Lowest 32%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)