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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.)
Haines Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
247 W 23rd Place
K-12 School
10.9 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
825 tons
Lowest 47%
Collins Academy High School
🕰️
(CPS)
1313 S Sacramento Blvd
K-12 School
10.9 kg/sqft
2,243 tons
SCI-Sinai
🕰️
2653 West Ogden Avenue
Medical Office
10.9 kg/sqft
1,179 tons
The Seneca
200 E Chestnut St
Multifamily Housing
10.9 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
1,830 tons
Highest 25%
Chicago Triplex
515 N Clark St
Hotel
10.9 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
3,734 tons
Highest 10%
3101-3121 N Sheridan Rd
3101-3121 N Sheridan Rd
Multifamily Housing
10.9 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
2,248 tons
Highest 20%
343 S DEARBORN ST
🕰️
343 S DEARBORN ST
Multifamily Housing
10.9 kg/sqft
1,829 tons
Archer Courts Apartments
🕰️
(CHA)
2220 2242 S PRINCETON AVE
Multifamily Housing
10.9 kg/sqft
1,505 tons
Palmolive Building Condominium Association
913 - 921 N Michigan Ave
Multifamily Housing
10.9 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
4,340 tons
Highest 8%
Belle Shore
1062 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Multifamily Housing
10.8 kg/sqft
Highest 11%
846 tons
Lowest 48%
Clark Academic Prep HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
5101 W Harrison St
K-12 School
10.8 kg/sqft
1,630 tons
Uptown Bank Building
🕰️
4753 N Broadway St
Office
10.8 kg/sqft
1,092 tons
Washington Square-North and Cicero Development LLC
4821 - 4951 W North Ave
Strip Mall
10.8 kg/sqft
Highest 11%
1,930 tons
Highest 24%
Greek Islands (200 S Halsted)
200 210 S HALSTED ST
Office
10.8 kg/sqft
Highest 11%
1,240 tons
Highest 38%
2940 W 87TH ST
2940 W 87TH ST
Senior Living Community
10.8 kg/sqft
Highest 11%
723 tons
Lowest 42%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)