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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 โ€œAs of 2016, this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than 50,000 square feet.โ€ 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.)
Ogden Elementary - CPS
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(CPS)
24 W Walton St
K-12 School
2.0 kg/sqft
#30 Lowest in Chicago*
639 tons
Lowest 36%
4235
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7050 S Pulaski
Retail Store
2.0 kg/sqft
194 tons
3222 W Maypole Ave
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3222 W Maypole Ave
Multifamily Housing
2.0 kg/sqft
256 tons
Michigan Avenue Gardens
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1808 S Michigan
Multifamily Housing
1.9 kg/sqft
#28 Lowest in Chicago*
102 tons
#9 Lowest in Chicago*
4260 N BROADWAY ST
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4260 N BROADWAY ST
Multifamily Housing
1.9 kg/sqft
#28 Lowest in Chicago*
236 tons
Lowest 4%
1000 W Washington Blvd
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1000 W Washington Blvd
Multifamily Housing
1.8 kg/sqft
#26 Lowest in Chicago*
644 tons
Lowest 37%
220 E GARFIELD BLVD
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220 E GARFIELD BLVD
Multifamily Housing
1.8 kg/sqft
#26 Lowest in Chicago*
187 tons
Lowest 2%
421 E 62ND ST
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421 E 62ND ST
Multifamily Housing
1.8 kg/sqft
#26 Lowest in Chicago*
555 tons
Lowest 31%
2929 W 83rd St
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2929 W 83rd St
K-12 School
1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
145 tons
#22 Lowest in Chicago*
1308 N Elston
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1308 N Elston
Office
1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
186 tons
Lowest 2%
2480 N MILWAUKEE AVE
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2480 N MILWAUKEE AVE
Multifamily Housing
1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
493 tons
Lowest 26%
Renaissance Saint Luke
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1501 W Belmont Ave
Multifamily Housing
1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
144 tons
#21 Lowest in Chicago*
4611 S ELLIS AVE
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4611 S ELLIS AVE
Worship Facility
1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
84 tons
#6 Lowest in Chicago*
717 N Michigan Ave
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717 N Michigan Ave
Retail Store
1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
105 tons
#11 Lowest in Chicago*
830 N Michigan Ave
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830 N Michigan Ave
Office
1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
208 tons
Lowest 2%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)