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 โ€œAs of 2016, this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than 50,000 square feet.โ€ 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.)
Fairbanks Lofts
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900 902 S WABASH AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
254 tons
Oakley Lofts Condominium Association
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2300 2308 W DIVERSEY AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
168 tons
Yesteryear Condo Association
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4211 4221 N PAULINA ST
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
266 tons
Ridgemoor Estates V Condominium Association
6430 W BELLE PLAINE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
217 tons
Lowest 3%
110 W SUPERIOR ST
110 W SUPERIOR ST
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
942 tons
Highest 47%
521 541 W WELLINGTON AVE
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521 541 W WELLINGTON AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
272 tons
Lowest 6%
Mildred Court Condominium Association
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2701 2711 N MILDRED AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
210 tons
5452 5466 S ELLIS AVE
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5452 5466 S ELLIS AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
175 tons
Lowest 1%
Ford City Mall
7601 S Cicero Ave
Retail Store
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
682 tons
Lowest 39%
4039 4051 N LAPORTE AVE
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4039 4051 N LAPORTE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 5%
326 tons
Lowest 10%
2611 N HERMITAGE AVE
2611 N HERMITAGE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
351 tons
Lowest 13%
The Buyer's Market Inc
4545 W Division St
Enclosed Mall
3.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
513 tons
Lowest 28%
Park Boulevard IIB
3720 S DEARBORN ST
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
288 tons
Lowest 7%
Morton Elementary Career Academy - CPS
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(CPS)
431 N Troy St
K-12 School
3.3 kg/sqft
238 tons
3941 N. Pine Grove Ave.
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3941 N. Pine Grove
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
356 tons
Page 213 of 226 (Building #3181 to #3195)

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