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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
IBEW Local 134
🕰️
2722 S King Dr
| Office | 8.0 kg/sqft  | 543 tons  |
|
River East Center Campus
🚩
322 E Illinois St
| Mixed Use Property | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 12,061 tons #47 Highest
|
|
Lawndale Gardens
(CHA)
2530 S Washtenaw Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 794 tons
Lowest 46%
|
|
Gallery 37
🕰️
(Chicago)
66 E Randolph St
| Other - Entertainment/Public Assembly | 8.0 kg/sqft | 599 tons |
|
Admirals Pointe Condominium Association
🕰️
645 N Kingsbury St
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft | 1,691 tons |
|
100 E Walton CA
100 E Walton St
| Mixed Use Property | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 2,954 tons
Highest 14%
|
|
4700 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
(CHA)
4700 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 1,608 tons
Highest 29%
|
|
The Chicago Building
🕰️
(SAIC)
7 W Madison St
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 8.0 kg/sqft | 840 tons |
|
The Buyer's Market Incorporated
🕰️
4545 W. Division St.
| Enclosed Mall | 8.0 kg/sqft | 1,238 tons |
|
Target, T2613 - Chicago Division
1200 N Larrabee St
| Retail Store | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 1,517 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
210 N Wells St
210 N Wells St
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 3,100 tons
Highest 13%
|
|
Fourth Prairie Shores, LLC
2851 S King Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 2,303 tons
Highest 19%
|
|
The Algonquin #6
1606 E Hyde Park Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 475 tons
Lowest 24%
|
|
United Winthrop Tower Cooperative
4848 N Winthrop Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 2,009 tons
Highest 23%
|
|
Chicago Magnificent Mile Dbtree
300 E Ohio St
| Hotel | 8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
| 3,370 tons
Highest 11%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data