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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.)
Kanoon Magnet Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2233 S Kedzie Ave
K-12 School
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
609 tons
Lowest 34%
741 E 79TH ST
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741 E 79TH ST
Multifamily Housing
9.0 kg/sqft
541 tons
1515 W Monroe St
1515 W Monroe St
Multifamily Housing
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
1,153 tons
Highest 40%
The Chicago Lighthouse
1850 W ROOSEVELT RD
Office
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
986 tons
Highest 46%
208 S La Salle Whole Building
208 S LaSalle St
Hotel
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
8,201 tons
Highest 3%
The Imperial of Lincoln Park
1366 W Fullerton Ave
Senior Living Community
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
1,687 tons
Highest 28%
737 North Michigan Avenue Investors LLC
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737 N Michigan Ave
Mixed Use Property
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
9,516 tons
Highest 3%
PCC-Chicago Office
643 N Orleans St
Office
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
481 tons
Lowest 24%
Home Depot
200 W 87th St
Retail Store
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
934 tons
Highest 47%
156 N. Jefferson
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156 N. Jefferson
Office
9.0 kg/sqft
483 tons
Target, Chicago South Pulaski (1879)
4433 S Pulaski Rd
Retail Store
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
1,094 tons
Highest 42%
Churchview Manors and Churview supportive Living
2626 2644 W 63RD ST
Senior Living Community
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
610 tons
Lowest 34%
3720 W ARMITAGE AVE
3720 W ARMITAGE AVE
Multifamily Housing
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
772 tons
Lowest 44%
6118 N SHERIDAN RD
6118 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
917 tons
Highest 48%
506 W HARRISON ST
506 W HARRISON ST
Hotel
9.0 kg/sqft
Highest 19%
672 tons
Lowest 38%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)