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.)
ASPIRA
🕰️
3119 N Pulaski Rd
K-12 School
1.7 kg/sqft
97 tons
233 E Walton Place
🏆
233 E Walton Place
Multifamily Housing
1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
119 tons
#13 Lowest in Chicago*
Firman Community Center West / Taylor Park
🕰️
37 41 W 47TH ST
Other
1.7 kg/sqft
263 tons
860 Evergreen LLC
🏆
860 W Evergreen Ave
Office
1.6 kg/sqft
#16 Lowest in Chicago*
171 tons
Lowest 1%
Six Corners Plaza
🕰️
3970 - 3982 N Milwaukee Ave
Strip Mall
1.6 kg/sqft
129 tons
Wooded Isle Apartments
🕰️
5736 S Stony Island Ave
Multifamily Housing
1.6 kg/sqft
97 tons
Cumberland Centre - Building 2
🕰️
5450 N Cumberland Ave
Office
1.5 kg/sqft
213 tons
2019 - 6920 S Crandon
🕰️
6920 Crandon Ave
Multifamily Housing
1.5 kg/sqft
104 tons
2019 - 4624 S Ellis
🕰️
4624 S. Ellis
Multifamily Housing
1.5 kg/sqft
153 tons
4302 4312 N SHERIDAN RD
🏆
4302 4312 N SHERIDAN RD
Multifamily Housing
1.5 kg/sqft
#15 Lowest in Chicago*
79 tons
#5 Lowest in Chicago*
3905 N Western
🕰️
3905-29 N. Western Ave.
Multifamily Housing
1.4 kg/sqft
98 tons
641 W Lake St
🏆
641 W Lake St
Office
1.4 kg/sqft
#13 Lowest in Chicago*
233 tons
Lowest 4%
1033 Van Buren
🕰️
1033 W VAN BUREN ST
Office
1.4 kg/sqft
119 tons
309-The Breakers at Edgewater Beach
🏆
5333 N Sheridan Rd
Senior Living Community
1.4 kg/sqft
#13 Lowest in Chicago*
2,440 tons
Highest 18%
Transportation Building Condominium Association
🏆
600 S Dearborn St
Multifamily Housing
1.3 kg/sqft
#11 Lowest in Chicago*
599 tons
Lowest 33%
Page 223 of 226 (Building #3331 to #3345)

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