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.)
50 E 26TH ST
50 E 26TH ST
Multifamily Housing
3.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
294 tons
Lowest 8%
2645 2657 W LAWRENCE AVE
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2645 2657 W LAWRENCE AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
160 tons
#27 Lowest in Chicago*
Catalyst-Maria
6727 S California Ave
K-12 School
3.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
549 tons
Lowest 30%
Shoreland Apartments
5454 S Shore Dr
Multifamily Housing
3.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
1,968 tons
Highest 23%
Ella Flagg Young Apartments
(CHA)
4645 N Sherdian Rd
Multifamily Housing
3.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 4%
936 tons
Highest 47%
De Diego Community Academy -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1313 N Claremont Ave
K-12 School
3.1 kg/sqft
744 tons
7200 Ridge Condominium Association
🕰️
7200 7216 N RIDGE BLVD
Multifamily Housing
3.1 kg/sqft
194 tons
Innisbrook IV Condominium Association
🕰️
5355-71 N Delphia
Multifamily Housing
3.0 kg/sqft
263 tons
318 N CARPENTER ST
318 N CARPENTER ST
Office
3.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 3%
312 tons
Lowest 9%
2150 S Canalport Avenue
2150 S Canalport Avenue
Office
3.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 3%
664 tons
Lowest 38%
Union West Apartments
🕰️
939 W WASHINGTON BLVD
Multifamily Housing
3.0 kg/sqft
1,068 tons
360 W Erie Street
360 W Erie Street
Multifamily Housing
3.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 3%
498 tons
Lowest 26%
Park Alexandria Condominium Association
125 S Jefferson St
Multifamily Housing
3.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 3%
1,241 tons
Highest 38%
6730 SOUTH SHORE DR
6730 SOUTH SHORE DR
Multifamily Housing
3.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 3%
452 tons
Lowest 22%
3711 S VINCENNES AVE
3711 S VINCENNES AVE
Multifamily Housing
3.0 kg/sqft
Lowest 3%
901 tons
Highest 49%
Page 216 of 226 (Building #3226 to #3240)

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