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.)
Bernard Mitchell Hospital
🕰️
5815 S Maryland Ave
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
27.9 kg/sqft
12,008 tons
53100522--CHICAGO
🕰️
5201 Sheridan Rd
Supermarket/Grocery Store
27.8 kg/sqft
1,533 tons
McLean
🕰️
5824 S Ellis Ave
Laboratory
27.7 kg/sqft
3,090 tons
WEISS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
🕰️
4646 N MARINE DR
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
27.7 kg/sqft
11,410 tons
Pete's Kedgie
🚩
4700 S Kedzie Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
26.8 kg/sqft
#22 Highest
1,445 tons
Highest 33%
Roscoe Square/ 90034
🕰️
3330 N Western Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
26.7 kg/sqft
1,372 tons
Anatomy and Culver
🕰️
1027 East 57th Street
Laboratory
26.3 kg/sqft
1,764 tons
303 E Superior Street
🚩
(Northwestern)
303 E Superior Street
Laboratory
26.2 kg/sqft
#23 Highest
10,967 tons
Highest 2%
53100539 -- Chicago
🕰️
3857 S DR MARTIN L KING JR DR
Supermarket/Grocery Store
26.2 kg/sqft
1,886 tons
Washington Park Fieldhouse, Trades, DuSable Roundhouse
🕰️
5531 South King Drive
Museum
26.2 kg/sqft
3,211 tons
Jewel at South Loop Marketplace
🚩
1340 S CANAL ST
Supermarket/Grocery Store
26.0 kg/sqft
#24 Highest
1,858 tons
Highest 25%
CME Group Inc
🕰️
333 S LaSalle St
Financial Office
26.0 kg/sqft
6,781 tons
Lurie Children's Lincoln Park Outpatient Center - Deming
🚩
467 W Deming Pl
Mixed Use Property
25.8 kg/sqft
#25 Highest
1,623 tons
Highest 29%
Jewel Osco, 03181-87th & State St
🚩
87 W 87th St
Supermarket/Grocery Store
25.2 kg/sqft
#26 Highest
1,766 tons
Highest 26%
Shop & Save Market - Archer
🕰️
5829 S Archer Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
25.1 kg/sqft
1,688 tons
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)