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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.)
1530 N DEARBORN PKWY
1530 N DEARBORN PKWY
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
485 tons
Lowest 25%
State Place Condominium Association
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1101 S State St
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
2,269 tons
Highest 20%
6800 S KEATING AVE
6800 S KEATING AVE
Senior Living Community
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
355 tons
Lowest 13%
6244 S KING DR
6244 S KING DR
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
422 tons
Lowest 19%
Ingleside investment group
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8101-25 S Ingleside
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
401 tons
431 W OAKDALE AVE
431 W OAKDALE AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
569 tons
Lowest 32%
Providence St. Mel School
119 S Central Park Blvd
K-12 School
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
782 tons
Lowest 45%
33 W Ontario Condominium Association
33 W Ontario St
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
4,355 tons
Highest 8%
Parc Huron
469 West Huron St
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
1,508 tons
Highest 31%
4101 4113 N KEDZIE AVE
4101 4113 N KEDZIE AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
222 tons
Lowest 3%
321 339 S DESPLAINES ST
321 339 S DESPLAINES ST
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
756 tons
Lowest 44%
5101 5115 N SHERIDAN RD
5101 5115 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
880 tons
Lowest 50%
5969 N RAVENSWOOD AVE
5969 N RAVENSWOOD AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
352 tons
Lowest 13%
4848 N CENTRAL AVE
4848 N CENTRAL AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
254 tons
Lowest 5%
1540 N STATE PKWY
1540 N STATE PKWY
Multifamily Housing
4.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 12%
440 tons
Lowest 20%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)