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.)
913 921 W VAN BUREN ST
913 921 W VAN BUREN ST
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
617 tons
Lowest 35%
Ironwood Court Apartments
6013 6031 S INDIANA AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
249 tons
Lowest 5%
THE WOODLANDS OF BRONZEVILLE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION
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606 E Woodland Park Ave
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
1,077 tons
Aztec Condominium
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305 W Fullerton Pkwy
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
284 tons
4001 N Ravenswood Ave
4001 N Ravenswood Ave
Other
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
272 tons
Lowest 6%
Lincoln Park 2550 Condominium Association
2550 N Lakeview Ave
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
3,509 tons
Highest 11%
Erie Centre Condo
375 425 W Erie St
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
1,399 tons
Highest 34%
2512 N BOSWORTH AVE
2512 N BOSWORTH AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
192 tons
Lowest 2%
833 W Jackson Blvd
833 W Jackson Blvd
Office
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
283 tons
Lowest 7%
5460 5472 S WOODLAWN AVE
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5460 5472 S WOODLAWN AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
183 tons
Lowest 2%
2 10 W ELM ST
2 10 W ELM ST
Multifamily Housing
3.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 6%
617 tons
Lowest 35%
1922 W Ogden Ave
1922 W Ogden Ave
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
861 tons
Lowest 49%
1802 S STATE ST
1802 S STATE ST
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
190 tons
Lowest 2%
Pueblo Commons Condominiums
8444 W Wilson Ave
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
744 tons
Lowest 43%
Dixon, Arthur -CPS
(CPS)
8306 S St Lawrence Ave
K-12 School
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
345 tons
Lowest 12%
Page 211 of 226 (Building #3151 to #3165)

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