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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.)
The Bristol Condominium Association
57 E Delaware Pl
Multifamily Housing
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
3,408 tons
Highest 11%
Goode HS -CPS
(CPS)
7651 S Homan Ave
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
1,455 tons
Highest 33%
Chippewa Apartments
5050 S East End Ave
Multifamily Housing
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
520 tons
Lowest 28%
Thorp Scholastic Academy, Ole A -CPS
(CPS)
6024 W Warwick Ave
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
655 tons
Lowest 37%
Sandoval Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5534 S St Louis Ave
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
762 tons
Lowest 44%
Ryder, William H -CPS
(CPS)
8716 S Wallace St
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
512 tons
Lowest 27%
Ryerson -CPS
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(CPS)
646 N Lawndale Ave
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
798 tons
Chopin Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
2450 W Rice St
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
677 tons
Tarkington School Of Excellence Es -CPS
(CPS)
3330 W 71st St
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
955 tons
Highest 47%
Nobel -CPS
(CPS)
4127 W Hirsch St
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
527 tons
Lowest 28%
Howe Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
720 N Lorel Ave
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
485 tons
Lowest 25%
Mcauliffe -CPS
(CPS)
1845 N Springfield Ave
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
635 tons
Lowest 36%
Murphy Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3539 W Grace St
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
597 tons
Lowest 33%
Logandale -CPS
(CPS)
3212 W George St
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
971 tons
Highest 46%
West Ridge Es -CPS
(CPS)
6700 N Whipple St
K-12 School
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
700 tons
Lowest 40%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)