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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.)
400 W Ontario St
400 W Ontario St
Multifamily Housing
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
1,032 tons
Highest 44%
Stagg Elementary, Amos A -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7424 S Morgan St
K-12 School
4.5 kg/sqft
308 tons
Epic Charter Academy - CPS
(CPS)
8255 S Houston Ave
K-12 School
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
311 tons
Lowest 9%
UIC College Prep
🕰️
1231 S Damen Ave
K-12 School
4.5 kg/sqft
374 tons
James N Thorp -CPS
(CPS)
8914 S Buffalo Ave
K-12 School
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
609 tons
Lowest 34%
Hale Elementary, Nathan -CPS
(CPS)
6140 S Melvina Ave
K-12 School
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
448 tons
Lowest 21%
3150 N Sheridan Rd
3150 N Sheridan Rd
Multifamily Housing
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
1,185 tons
Highest 39%
The Belmont by Reside
3170 N Sheridan Rd
Multifamily Housing
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
2,126 tons
Highest 21%
The State Parkway CA
1445 N State Pkwy
Multifamily Housing
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
1,294 tons
Highest 37%
Cumberland Centre - Building 1
🕰️
5440 N Cumberland Ave
Office
4.5 kg/sqft
871 tons
Austin Polytechical HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
231 N Pine Ave
K-12 School
4.5 kg/sqft
1,771 tons
Museum Pointe CA
233 E 13th St
Multifamily Housing
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
1,823 tons
Highest 26%
2626 Lakeview Condominium
2626 N Lakeview Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
3,503 tons
Highest 11%
740 N MILWAUKEE AVE
740 N MILWAUKEE AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
374 tons
Lowest 14%
3900 N PINE GROVE AVE
3900 N PINE GROVE AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 17%
444 tons
Lowest 21%
Page 188 of 226 (Building #2806 to #2820)

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