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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2755 N MILWAUKEE AVE
2755 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft 
Lowest 8%
| 270 tons
Lowest 6%
|
|
366 W. Superior
366 W. Superior
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 468 tons
Lowest 23%
|
|
1241 N Milwaukee Ave
1241 N Milwaukee Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 300 tons
Lowest 8%
|
|
5556 North Sheridan Condominium Association
5556 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 418 tons
Lowest 18%
|
|
Warren Ashland Place
1609 W Warren Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 297 tons
Lowest 8%
|
|
Polaris Charter Academy Elementary School - CPS
(CPS)
620 N Sawyer Ave
| K-12 School | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 337 tons
Lowest 11%
|
|
Phillips Academy HS -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
244 E Pershing Rd
| K-12 School | 3.8 kg/sqft | 1,094 tons  |
|
1400 Museum Park Condo
100 E 14th St
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 2,034 tons
Highest 23%
|
|
Randolph Place Residences Condominium Association
165 N Canal St
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 2,868 tons
Highest 15%
|
|
Emerald Condo
123 - 125 S Green St
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 1,154 tons
Highest 40%
|
|
1217 1227 W WILSON AVE
1217 1227 W WILSON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 251 tons
Lowest 5%
|
|
4501 N CENTRAL PARK AVE
4501 N CENTRAL PARK AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 190 tons
Lowest 2%
|
|
4310-22 N Clarendon
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4310 4322 N CLARENDON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft | 249 tons |
|
540 W SURF ST
540 W SURF ST
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 244 tons
Lowest 4%
|
|
1725 W NORTH AVE
1725 W NORTH AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
| 181 tons
Lowest 1%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data