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 From Large Buildings in 2022
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.
Additionally, note that all tons specified are metric tons.
| Name / Address | Primary Property Type |
GHG Intensity (kg CO2 eq./sqft) |
Total GHG Emissions (tons CO2 eq.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Webster -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
4055 W Arthington St
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft  | 359 tons |
|
Eric Solorio HS -CPS
(CPS)
5410 S St Louis Ave
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,276 tons 
Highest 37%
|
|
Kelvyn Park HS -CPS
(CPS)
4343 W Wrightwood Ave
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 1,121 tons
Highest 41%
|
|
Haugan Magnet, Helge A -CPS
(CPS)
4540 N Hamlin Ave
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 822 tons
Lowest 47%
|
|
Bond Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
7050 S May St
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft | 624 tons |
|
Beaubien Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5025 N Laramie Ave
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 706 tons
Lowest 40%
|
|
Calmeca Fine Arts -CPS
(CPS)
3456 W 38th Street
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 652 tons
Lowest 37%
|
|
Holden Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
1104 W 31st St
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 603 tons
Lowest 34%
|
|
Pershing West -CPS
(CPS)
3200 S Calumet Ave
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 776 tons
Lowest 44%
|
|
Lovett Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
6333 W Bloomingdale Ave
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 510 tons
Lowest 27%
|
|
South Shore ES
🕰️
(CPS)
1404 E 70th St
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft | 459 tons |
|
Hawthorne Elementary Academy -CPS
(CPS)
3319 N Clifton Ave
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 425 tons
Lowest 19%
|
|
Bronzeville Charter, Hartigan - CPS
(CPS)
8 W Root St
| K-12 School | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 385 tons
Lowest 15%
|
|
4950 Powhatan Building Corp.
🕰️
4950 S Chicago Beach Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 6.0 kg/sqft | 1,013 tons |
|
314 W Superior St
314 W Superior St
| Office | 6.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 42%
| 653 tons
Lowest 37%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data