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.)
2755 N MILWAUKEE AVE
2755 N MILWAUKEE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
270 tons
Lowest 6%
366 W. Superior
366 W. Superior
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
468 tons
Lowest 23%
1241 N Milwaukee Ave
1241 N Milwaukee Ave
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
300 tons
Lowest 8%
5556 North Sheridan Condominium Association
5556 N Sheridan Rd
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
418 tons
Lowest 18%
Warren Ashland Place
1609 W Warren Blvd
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
297 tons
Lowest 8%
Polaris Charter Academy Elementary School - CPS
(CPS)
620 N Sawyer Ave
K-12 School
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
337 tons
Lowest 11%
Phillips Academy HS -CPS
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(CPS)
244 E Pershing Rd
K-12 School
3.8 kg/sqft
1,094 tons
1400 Museum Park Condo
100 E 14th St
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
2,034 tons
Highest 23%
Randolph Place Residences Condominium Association
165 N Canal St
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
2,868 tons
Highest 15%
Emerald Condo
123 - 125 S Green St
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
1,154 tons
Highest 40%
1217 1227 W WILSON AVE
1217 1227 W WILSON AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
251 tons
Lowest 5%
4501 N CENTRAL PARK AVE
4501 N CENTRAL PARK AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
190 tons
Lowest 2%
4310-22 N Clarendon
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4310 4322 N CLARENDON AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
249 tons
540 W SURF ST
540 W SURF ST
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
244 tons
Lowest 4%
1725 W NORTH AVE
1725 W NORTH AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
181 tons
Lowest 1%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)