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.)
TransUnion LLC
555 W Adams St
Office
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
1,201 tons
Highest 39%
2609 W BELMONT AVE
2609 W BELMONT AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 8%
329 tons
Lowest 10%
4434 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
4434 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
209 tons
Lowest 2%
Robert J. Richardson Middle School
6018 S Karlov Avenue
K-12 School
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
494 tons
Lowest 26%
1245 West Jackson Place
1241 1245 W JACKSON BLVD
Multifamily Housing
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
423 tons
Lowest 19%
Brompton
🕰️
534-552 West Brompton
Multifamily Housing
3.7 kg/sqft
402 tons
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7600 N Bosworth
Multifamily Housing
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
477 tons
Lowest 24%
Smyth -CPS
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(CPS)
1051 W 13th Ave
K-12 School
3.7 kg/sqft
445 tons
Stevenson, Adlai E -CPS
(CPS)
8010 S Kostner Ave
K-12 School
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
526 tons
Lowest 28%
Henry Elementary, Patrick -CPS
(CPS)
4250 N St Louis Ave
K-12 School
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
329 tons
Lowest 11%
Hamline Elementary-CPS
(CPS)
4747 S Bishop St
K-12 School
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
428 tons
Lowest 19%
Appleville Condominium
501 W 24th Pl
Multifamily Housing
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
923 tons
Highest 48%
IL2125ZZ-QUINCY COURT BLDG
🕰️
11 W Quincy Ct
Office
3.7 kg/sqft
451 tons
3525 W. Peterson Avenue
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3525 W Peterson Ave
Office
3.7 kg/sqft
214 tons
420 W MELROSE ST
420 W MELROSE ST
Multifamily Housing
3.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 7%
212 tons
Lowest 3%
Page 207 of 226 (Building #3091 to #3105)

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