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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.)
180 N Michigan Ave
180 N Michigan Ave
Office
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
1,669 tons
Highest 28%
Randolph Tower City
188 W Randolph St
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
2,674 tons
Highest 16%
Grand Plaza
540 N State St
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
8,005 tons
Highest 4%
Sheridan Court
🕰️
6807 N Sheridan Rd
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
718 tons
CP2, LLC
🕰️
225 W Hubbard St
Other
7.2 kg/sqft
394 tons
440 N Wells St
440 N Wells St
Office
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
813 tons
Lowest 47%
4880 Marine Drive Condominium
🕰️
4880 N MARINE DR
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
510 tons
1310 N RITCHIE CT
1310 N RITCHIE CT
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
1,309 tons
Highest 36%
660 W WRIGHTWOOD AVE
660 W WRIGHTWOOD AVE
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
278 tons
Lowest 7%
Evergreen Tower
1333 N CLEVELAND AVE
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
656 tons
Lowest 37%
2941 S Michigan Ave
2941 S Michigan Ave
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
486 tons
Lowest 25%
3639 3649 N PINE GROVE AVE
3639 3649 N PINE GROVE AVE
Multifamily Housing
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
721 tons
Lowest 42%
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St
Other - Entertainment/Public Assembly
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
1,730 tons
Highest 27%
One North Wacker
🚩
1 N Wacker Dr
Office
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
11,681 tons
#50 Highest
Two North Riverside Plaza
2 N Riverside Plz
Office
7.2 kg/sqft
Highest 35%
5,361 tons
Highest 6%
Page 86 of 226 (Building #1276 to #1290)

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