Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
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. 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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Aviation Administration Building
10510 W Zemke Rd
| Office | 10.0 kg/sqft 
Highest 13%
| 1,659 tons
Highest 28%
|
|
750 N. Orleans
🕰️
750 N Orleans St
| Office | 10.0 kg/sqft | 744 tons  |
|
5107 S. Blackstone Ave
5107 S. Blackstone Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 10.0 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
| 842 tons
Lowest 48%
|
|
1301 N STATE PKWY
1301 N STATE PKWY
| Hotel | 10.0 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
| 1,894 tons
Highest 24%
|
|
Drake Hotel
🚩
140 E Walton Pl
| Hotel | 10.0 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
| 6,479 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
The Salvation Army
🕰️
506 N DESPLAINES ST
| Office | 10.0 kg/sqft | 646 tons |
|
GAP - 1454 - STATE STREET
35 N State St
| Retail Store | 10.0 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
| 602 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
IL0054ZZ - Clark Fedral Bldg
536 S Clark St
| Office | 10.0 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
| 6,368 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
6700 Crandon Condominium Association
6700 S Crandon Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 814 tons
Lowest 47%
|
|
1400 State Parkway Condominium Association
1400 N State Pkwy
| Multifamily Housing | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 938 tons
Highest 47%
|
|
Trinity United Church of Christ
🕰️
400 W 95th St
| Worship Facility | 9.9 kg/sqft | 775 tons |
|
Bookstore
(UChicago)
970 E 58th St
| Retail Store | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 494 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
Kersten Physics Teaching Center
(UChicago)
5720 S Ellis Ave
| College/University | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 588 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Cook Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
8150 S Bishop St
| K-12 School | 9.9 kg/sqft | 973 tons |
|
Carson, Rachel Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
5516 S Maplewood Ave
| K-12 School | 9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
| 1,367 tons
Highest 35%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data