Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
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. 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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1000 W LELAND AVE
1000 W LELAND AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft 
Lowest 9%
| 565 tons
Lowest 31%
|
|
Eddystone Condominium Homes
415 421 W MELROSE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 969 tons 
Highest 46%
|
|
Adlake Limited Partnership
320 W Ohio St
| Office | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 316 tons
Lowest 9%
|
|
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
2727 W WINONA ST
| Worship Facility | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 248 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
St. Edmund's Episcopal Church
6105 S Michigan Ave
| K-12 School | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 234 tons
Lowest 4%
|
|
400 N McClurg Ct
400 N McClurg Ct
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 2,202 tons
Highest 20%
|
|
1307 1313 S WABASH AVE
1307 1313 S WABASH AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 601 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Wells Community Academy HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
936 N Ashland Ave
| K-12 School | 3.9 kg/sqft | 1,026 tons |
|
901 W Jackson Blvd
901 W Jackson Blvd
| Office | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 217 tons
Lowest 3%
|
|
3850 W BRYN MAWR AVE
3850 W BRYN MAWR AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 237 tons
Lowest 4%
|
|
1330 N LASALLE DR
1330 N LASALLE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 203 tons
Lowest 2%
|
|
4521 4523 N MALDEN ST
4521 4523 N MALDEN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 201 tons
Lowest 2%
|
|
4501 4519 N MALDEN ST
4501 4519 N MALDEN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 309 tons
Lowest 9%
|
|
3301 W Arthington St
3301 W Arthington St
| Multifamily Housing | 3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
| 886 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
9101 S Euclid Ave
9101 S Euclid Ave
| K-12 School | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 264 tons
Lowest 6%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data