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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Alden Princeton Rehab & Health Care Center
255 W 69th St
| Senior Living Community | 11.0 kg/sqft 
Highest 10%
| 881 tons 
Lowest 50%
|
|
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7425 S South Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 609 tons
Lowest 34%
|
|
280 Building
🕰️
(SAIC)
280 S Columbus Dr
| College/University | 11.0 kg/sqft | 1,561 tons |
|
National Teachers Academy -CPS
(CPS)
55 W Cermak Rd
| K-12 School | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 1,728 tons
Highest 27%
|
|
Humboldt Park
🕰️
1440 North Sacramento
| Other - Recreation | 11.0 kg/sqft | 628 tons |
|
4343 Clarendon Condominium Association
4343 N Clarendon Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 3,892 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
Adler Planetarium
1300 S Lake Shore Dr
| Museum | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 1,923 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
Thomas F Flannery Apartments
(CHA)
1531 N Clybourn Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 1,100 tons
Highest 42%
|
|
The Maxwell
1100 S Canal St
| Strip Mall | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 2,649 tons
Highest 17%
|
|
321 N CENTRAL AVE
321 N CENTRAL AVE
| Residential Care Facility | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 781 tons
Lowest 45%
|
|
1900 1912 W PRATT BLVD
1900 1912 W PRATT BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 532 tons
Lowest 29%
|
|
Allegro Hotel and Palace Theater
151 171 W Randolph St
| Hotel | 11.0 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 4,218 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
7500 S SOUTH SHORE DR
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7500 S SOUTH SHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 11.0 kg/sqft | 890 tons |
|
400 W HURON ST
400 W HURON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 10.9 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 855 tons
Lowest 49%
|
|
Salvation Army Freedom Center
825 N CHRISTIANA AVE
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 10.9 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
| 2,005 tons
Highest 23%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data