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.)
3224 3244 N HALSTED ST
3224 3244 N HALSTED ST
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
900 tons
Highest 49%
Anchor House
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1230 W. 76th St
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
477 tons
1327 W WASHINGTON BLVD
1327 W WASHINGTON BLVD
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
332 tons
Lowest 11%
3950 W BRYN MAWR AVE
3950 W BRYN MAWR AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
201 tons
Lowest 2%
4653 4661 S LAKE PARK AVE
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4653 4661 S LAKE PARK AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
190 tons
Lowest 2%
33 W HURON ST
33 W HURON ST
Multifamily Housing
3.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
607 tons
Lowest 34%
King College Prep -CPS
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(CPS)
4445 S Drexel Blvd
K-12 School
3.3 kg/sqft
1,031 tons
2731 2739 N MILWAUKEE AVE
2731 2739 N MILWAUKEE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
224 tons
Lowest 3%
4124-4132 N Kedvale Avenue
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4124-4132 N Kedvale Avenue
Multifamily Housing
3.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
166 tons
#30 Lowest in Chicago*
Wildwood IB World Magnet School
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6950 N Hiawatha Avenue
K-12 School
3.2 kg/sqft
189 tons
Wolf Point East
313 W Wolf Point Plaza
Multifamily Housing
3.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
2,983 tons
Highest 14%
Oakwood Shores 2D
3744-54 S ELLIS AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
638 tons
Lowest 36%
4447 N Kedzie Ave
4447 N Kedzie Ave
Multifamily Housing
3.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
236 tons
Lowest 4%
Schreiber Center- ID#254355
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(Loyola)
16 E PEARSON ST
College/University
3.2 kg/sqft
409 tons
Metro North Condominium Association
3946 N Ravenswood Ave
Multifamily Housing
3.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
246 tons
Lowest 4%
Page 214 of 226 (Building #3196 to #3210)

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