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.)
John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center
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(Illinois Tech)
10 W 32nd Street
College/University
31.4 kg/sqft
4,204 tons
4700 N MARINE DR
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
4700 N MARINE DR
Medical Office
31.1 kg/sqft
4,594 tons
53100512--CHICAGO
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
1615 S Clark St
Supermarket/Grocery Store
30.7 kg/sqft
1,899 tons
Jewel Osco, 03470-Elston & Addison
๐Ÿšฉ
3570 N Elston Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
30.6 kg/sqft
#16 Highest
1,683 tons
Highest 28%
Pete's Madison
๐Ÿšฉ
2333 W Madison
Supermarket/Grocery Store
30.4 kg/sqft
#17 Highest
2,007 tons
Highest 23%
CCD
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
5700 S Maryland Ave
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
30.2 kg/sqft
36,452 tons
6009 N BROADWAY
๐Ÿšฉ
6009 N BROADWAY
Supermarket/Grocery Store
29.9 kg/sqft
#18 Highest
1,670 tons
Highest 28%
Pete's 118th
๐Ÿšฉ
3454 - 3620 E 118th St
Supermarket/Grocery Store
29.6 kg/sqft
#19 Highest
1,598 tons
Highest 29%
Pete's Cermak
๐Ÿšฉ
2526 W Cermak Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
29.5 kg/sqft
#20 Highest
2,186 tons
Highest 21%
53100507--CHICAGO
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
5353 N Elston Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
29.1 kg/sqft
1,836 tons
Wrigley Global Innovation Center
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
1132 W BLACKHAWK ST
Office
29.0 kg/sqft
5,557 tons
Elston Plaza
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5033 N. ELSTON AVE
Retail Store
28.8 kg/sqft
2,503 tons
DCAM
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5758 S Maryland Ave
Ambulatory Surgical Center
28.6 kg/sqft
15,393 tons
70800552 -- Chicago
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
7030 S Ashland Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
28.5 kg/sqft
1,804 tons
Jewel Osco, 03187-119th and Marshfield
๐Ÿšฉ
11730 S Marshfield Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
28.2 kg/sqft
#21 Highest
1,739 tons
Highest 27%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)