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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.)
AMLI Lofts
850 S CLARK ST
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
890 tons
Lowest 50%
G & A Senior Residence at Eastgate Village
300 E 26TH ST
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
460 tons
Lowest 22%
No. 10 Urban Court Lofts
1040 W Adams St
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
1,706 tons
Highest 27%
Kenmore Plaza Tenant Association
(CHA)
5225 N Kenmore Ave
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
1,188 tons
Highest 39%
3000 N SHERIDAN RD
3000 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
990 tons
Highest 45%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
8765 W Higgins Rd
Office
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
1,118 tons
Highest 41%
SIR Chicago
400 S Jefferson St
Office
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
1,205 tons
Highest 39%
1414 N WELLS ST
1414 N WELLS ST
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
354 tons
Lowest 13%
1872 N CLYBOURN AVE
1872 N CLYBOURN AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
523 tons
Lowest 28%
505 W BELMONT AVE
505 W BELMONT AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
228 tons
Lowest 3%
1025 1035 W LOYOLA AVE
1025 1035 W LOYOLA AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
399 tons
Lowest 17%
fmc management
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1016 w balmoral
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
240 tons
3161 N CAMBRIDGE AVE
3161 N CAMBRIDGE AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
224 tons
Lowest 3%
550 W Jackson
550 W Jackson Blvd
Office
4.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 15%
1,943 tons
Highest 24%
1025 W Hollywood
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1025 W Hollywood
Multifamily Housing
4.4 kg/sqft
275 tons
Page 192 of 226 (Building #2866 to #2880)

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