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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.)
1110 N Lake Shore Drive Apartments
1110 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
1,615 tons
Highest 29%
Stem Magnet Academy / Old Thomas Jefferson -CPS
(CPS)
1522 W Fillmore Blvd
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
537 tons
Lowest 29%
Holy Name Cathedral Parish
🕰️
735 N State St
Other
7.7 kg/sqft
1,488 tons
Mcpherson Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
4728 N Wolcott Ave
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
1,199 tons
Highest 39%
Mozart -CPS
(CPS)
2200 N Hamlin Ave
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
714 tons
Lowest 41%
Orozco Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1940 W 18th St
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
828 tons
Taylor, Douglas -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
9912 S Avenue H
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
675 tons
Lavizzo Elementary - CPS
(CPS)
137 W 108th Pl
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
642 tons
Lowest 36%
Mccormick -CPS
(CPS)
2712 S Sawyer Ave
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
773 tons
Lowest 44%
Christopher Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5042 S Artesian Ave
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
589 tons
Lowest 33%
Jungman Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
1746 S Miller St
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
538 tons
Lowest 29%
Foster Park Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
8500 S Wood
K-12 School
7.7 kg/sqft
522 tons
40 E Oak St
40 E Oak St
Multifamily Housing
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
1,181 tons
Highest 40%
Erie on the Park Condominium Association
510 W Erie St
Multifamily Housing
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
1,502 tons
Highest 31%
564 W Randolph St
564 W Randolph St
Office
7.7 kg/sqft
Highest 29%
927 tons
Highest 48%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)