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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.)
Walsh, John A -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2031 S Peoria St
K-12 School
7.2 kg/sqft
525 tons
Lloyd Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
2103 N Lamon Ave
K-12 School
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
1,083 tons
Highest 42%
Miles Davis Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
6740 S Paulina St
K-12 School
7.2 kg/sqft
748 tons
Hefferan Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
4409 W Wilcox St
K-12 School
7.2 kg/sqft
439 tons
NMH Worcester House
244 E Pearson St
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
1,049 tons
Highest 44%
8 S. Michigan Ave
8 S Michigan Ave
Office
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
1,309 tons
Highest 36%
Long Life Apts
(CHA)
344 W 28th Pl
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
694 tons
Lowest 40%
Harry J. Schneider Apartments
(CHA)
1750 W Peterson Ave
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
806 tons
Lowest 46%
Lowden Homes
📷
(CHA)
200 W 95th St
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
822 tons
Lowest 47%
7219 N SHERIDAN RD
7219 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
383 tons
Lowest 15%
Victory Centre of Galewood
2370 N Newcastle Ave
Senior Living Community
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
566 tons
Lowest 31%
Jordan Comm -CPS
(CPS)
7414 N Wolcott Ave
K-12 School
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
479 tons
Lowest 24%
The Tides at Lakeshore East
360 E South Water St
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
3,501 tons
Highest 11%
765 W Adams St
765 W Adams St
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
2,543 tons
Highest 17%
1350-60 N LSD
1350 N Lake Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
5,217 tons
Highest 6%
Page 85 of 226 (Building #1261 to #1275)

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