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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
CICS ChicagoQuest School and The Noble Academy
1409 - 1443 N Ogden Ave
| K-12 School | 14.6 kg/sqft 
Highest 5%
| 1,322 tons
Highest 36%
|
|
820 N. Orleans
🕰️
820 N Orleans St
| Office | 14.5 kg/sqft | 2,245 tons |
|
Chapin Hall
(UChicago)
1313 E 60th St
| College/University | 14.5 kg/sqft
Highest 6%
| 951 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
Belhaven Nursing & Rehab Center
11401 S OAKLEY AVE
| Senior Living Community | 14.5 kg/sqft
Highest 6%
| 1,009 tons
Highest 45%
|
|
Thomas P. Levan Center
(DePaul)
2322 N Kenmore Ave
| College/University | 14.4 kg/sqft
Highest 6%
| 755 tons 
Lowest 44%
|
|
McGowan South
(DePaul)
1110 W Belden
| College/University | 14.4 kg/sqft
Highest 6%
| 1,846 tons
Highest 25%
|
|
Scientific Games-2718 Roscoe
🕰️
2718 Roscoe St
| Office | 14.3 kg/sqft | 1,745 tons |
|
U.S. Bank -- Pullman Branch
🕰️
1000 E 111th St
| Office | 14.3 kg/sqft | 1,372 tons |
|
1407 S. Michigan
🕰️
1411 S Michigan Avenue
| Mixed Use Property | 14.2 kg/sqft | 1,150 tons |
|
Fletcher Jones Chicago Service (Audi)
🕰️
1521 W NORTH AVE
| Automobile Dealership | 14.2 kg/sqft | 783 tons |
|
1 W WASHINGTON ST
1 W WASHINGTON ST
| Hotel | 14.2 kg/sqft
Highest 6%
| 1,210 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
Lincoln Village 1
🕰️
6101-6133 North Lincoln
| Strip Mall | 14.1 kg/sqft | 768 tons |
|
251010 - Quaker Tower
🕰️
555 West Monroe Street
| Office | 14.1 kg/sqft | 6,410 tons |
|
UCAN Therapeutic Youth Home
🕰️
3640 West Fillmore Street
| Other - Education | 14.0 kg/sqft | 757 tons |
|
Lakeview YMCA
🕰️
3321-3333 N.Marshfield
| Fitness Center/Health Club/Gym | 14.0 kg/sqft | 1,306 tons |
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data