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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 โ€œAs of 2016, this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than 50,000 square feet.โ€ 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.)
350 N. LaSalle
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350 N LaSalle St
Office
22.2 kg/sqft
2,691 tons
Jewel Osco
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424 W DIVISION ST
Supermarket/Grocery Store
22.2 kg/sqft
#48 Highest
1,477 tons
Highest 32%
Loretto Hospital
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645 South Central Ave
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
22.1 kg/sqft
5,114 tons
303 E Chicago Ave
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(Northwestern)
303 E Chicago Ave
Laboratory
22.0 kg/sqft
#50 Highest
6,691 tons
Highest 5%
300 E Superior Street
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(Northwestern)
300 E Superior Street
Laboratory
22.0 kg/sqft
#50 Highest
6,694 tons
Highest 4%
Mercy Chicago - Hospital
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2525 S Michigan Ave
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
22.0 kg/sqft
16,524 tons
201 N State St
201 N State St
Hotel
21.9 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
2,905 tons
Highest 15%
Jewel Osco, 03092-95th & Stony Island
1655 E 95th St
Supermarket/Grocery Store
21.8 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
1,582 tons
Highest 30%
Presence SMEMC St Mary Campus
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2233 W Division St
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
21.8 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
15,172 tons
#31 Highest
Tech Business Center
3440 S DEARBORN ST
Office
21.7 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
3,133 tons
Highest 13%
Gateway to West Loop
16 - 40 S Halsted St
Supermarket/Grocery Store
21.6 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
2,075 tons
Highest 22%
Evangelical Covenant Church
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8303 W Higgins Rd
Office
21.5 kg/sqft
959 tons
Jewel Osco, 02508-Howard & Clark
1763 W Howard St
Supermarket/Grocery Store
21.4 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
1,503 tons
Highest 31%
180 North Wacker
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180 North Wacker
Office
21.3 kg/sqft
1,509 tons
John G Shedd Aquarium
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1200 S Lake Shore Dr
Other
21.3 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
9,640 tons
Highest 2%
Page 7 of 226 (Building #91 to #105)

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