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 From Large Buildings in 2022

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 “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.)
950 W HURON ST
950 W HURON ST
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
317 tons
Lowest 10%
616 W FULTON ST
616 W FULTON ST
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
638 tons
Lowest 36%
1006 1012 S MICHIGAN AVE
1006 1012 S MICHIGAN AVE
Office
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
323 tons
Lowest 10%
2550 2558 S WABASH AVE
2550 2558 S WABASH AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
271 tons
Lowest 6%
McKinley Park Lofts Condominium Association
2319 2333 W PERSHING RD
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
826 tons
Lowest 48%
633 S PLYMOUTH CT
633 S PLYMOUTH CT
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
500 tons
Lowest 26%
442 444 W WELLINGTON AVE
442 444 W WELLINGTON AVE
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
531 tons
Lowest 29%
Catherine Courts Condominium Association of Chicago (5306 N Cumberland Ave)
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5306 N. Cumberland Ave.
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
415 tons
111 S PEORIA ST
111 S PEORIA ST
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
901 tons
Highest 49%
Chicago Vocational Career Academy -CPS
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(CPS)
2106 E 87th St
K-12 School
4.0 kg/sqft
2,718 tons
101 W SUPERIOR ST
101 W SUPERIOR ST
Multifamily Housing
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
442 tons
Lowest 20%
Auditorium Building
430 S Michigan Ave
College/University
4.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 10%
2,420 tons
Highest 18%
5101 5113 S INGLESIDE AVE
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5101 5113 S INGLESIDE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
253 tons
Lowest 5%
5222 5238 S DREXEL AVE
5222 5238 S DREXEL AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
350 tons
Lowest 12%
5724 5734 S BLACKSTONE AVE
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5724 5734 S BLACKSTONE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 9%
206 tons
Lowest 2%
Page 202 of 226 (Building #3016 to #3030)

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)