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.)
Conservancy at North Park Condo I
3900 W BRYN MAWR AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
218 tons
Lowest 3%
Frances Larry Apartments
824 832 E 53rd St
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
223 tons
Lowest 3%
StThomastheApostle_School
🕰️
5472 S Kimbark Ave
K-12 School
3.6 kg/sqft
227 tons
Herzl -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
3711 W Douglas Blvd
K-12 School
3.6 kg/sqft
519 tons
Hanson Park -CPS
(CPS)
2301 N Central Ave
K-12 School
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
481 tons
Lowest 25%
Reinberg Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
3425 N Major Ave
K-12 School
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
600 tons
Lowest 33%
Wentworth Gardens
(CHA)
3770 S Wentworth Ave
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
2,991 tons
Highest 14%
The Metropolitan Place Condominium Association
🕰️
130 S Canal St
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
2,046 tons
Bennett Brothers Building (Hartman Building)
30 32 E ADAMS ST
Office
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
635 tons
Lowest 36%
3740 N PINE GROVE AVE
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3740 N PINE GROVE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
192 tons
Lowest 2%
3940 W BRYN MAWR AVE
3940 W BRYN MAWR AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
220 tons
Lowest 3%
401 465 E Illinois St
401 465 E Illinois St
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
1,440 tons
Highest 33%
Chicago & Kedzie Plaza
800 N Kedzie Ave
Strip Mall
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
547 tons
Lowest 30%
Printers Row Lofts
722 740 S FINANCIAL PL
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
711 tons
Lowest 41%
2001 S CALUMET AVE
2001 S CALUMET AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
504 tons
Lowest 27%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)