Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
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. 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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2804 E 77TH PL
2804 E 77TH PL
| Senior Living Community | 6.9 kg/sqft 
Highest 41%
| 417 tons 
Lowest 18%
|
|
4239 N OAKPARK AVE
4239 N OAKPARK AVE
| Senior Living Community | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 889 tons
Lowest 50%
|
|
740 N ABERDEEN ST
740 N ABERDEEN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 1,522 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
Former Coyne College
330 N Green St
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 4,281 tons
Highest 8%
|
|
Lawndale Christian Health Center
3750 W OGDEN AVE
| Mixed Use Property | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 444 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
4200 W Diversey Ave
4200 W Diversey Ave
| Other | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 968 tons
Highest 46%
|
|
Roosevelt Square II
(CHA)
1222 W Roosevelt Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 1,200 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
1301 East 47th Street
1301 E 47th St
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 635 tons
Lowest 36%
|
|
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E 59th St
| Other - Entertainment/Public Assembly | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 635 tons
Lowest 36%
|
|
Rosenwald Hall and Walker Museum
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1115-25 East 58th Street
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft | 704 tons |
|
Law/ Mott/ Social Service Admin/ Faculty Housing
(UChicago)
1111 E 60th St
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 445 tons
Lowest 21%
|
|
1010 Lake Shore Association
1010 N Lake Shore Drive
| Multifamily Housing | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 2,748 tons
Highest 16%
|
|
Region 4 Office -CPS
(CPS)
4655 S Dearborn St
| Office | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 689 tons
Lowest 39%
|
|
Pritzker Elementary, A.N -CPS
(CPS)
2009 W Schiller St
| K-12 School | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 457 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
Mather HS -CPS
(CPS)
5835 N Lincoln Ave
| K-12 School | 6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
| 1,278 tons
Highest 37%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data