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.)
2333 2341 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
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2333 2341 N COMMONWEALTH AVE
Multifamily Housing
2.8 kg/sqft
Lowest 3%
245 tons
Lowest 4%
4600-4650 W. Diversey
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4600 4650 W Diversey Ave
Strip Mall
2.8 kg/sqft
151 tons
717 S CLARK ST
717 S CLARK ST
Multifamily Housing
2.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
1,293 tons
Highest 37%
1502 N Ainslie LLC
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4914 N CLARK ST
Multifamily Housing
2.7 kg/sqft
151 tons
Map Factory Lofts
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5235 N Ravenswood Ave
Multifamily Housing
2.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
147 tons
#24 Lowest in Chicago*
Much-Musikantow Co.
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8001 - 8007 S Cottage Grove Ave
Other - Public Services
2.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
140 tons
#18 Lowest in Chicago*
School_HolyAngelsSchoolAnnex
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750 E 40th St
K-12 School
2.7 kg/sqft
280 tons
Vranas and Assoc. C/O Realty and Mortgage Co.
346 N Justine St
Office
2.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
247 tons
Lowest 5%
MacLean Center
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112 S Michigan Ave
College/University
2.7 kg/sqft
636 tons
2516 2526 N KEDZIE BLVD
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2516 2526 N KEDZIE BLVD
Multifamily Housing
2.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
99 tons
#8 Lowest in Chicago*
The Monadnock Building
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53 W Jackson Blvd
Office
2.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
1,336 tons
Highest 36%
1744 N Western Ave
1744 N Western Ave
Multifamily Housing
2.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
365 tons
Lowest 14%
33 S Aberdeen St
33 S Aberdeen St
Multifamily Housing
2.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
500 tons
Lowest 26%
MissionofOurLadyoftheAngels_School
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3814 W Iowa St
K-12 School
2.6 kg/sqft
142 tons
954 W Washington Blvd
954 W Washington Blvd
Office
2.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
358 tons
Lowest 13%
Page 219 of 226 (Building #3271 to #3285)

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