All Buildings By Greenhouse Gas Intensity

These are the Chicago's benchmarked buildings that reported 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.

3,852 Chicago buildings have submitted data and are ranked below. This doesn't include the 396 buildings that have never submitted data, since we have nothing to rank them by.

Note: Data From Large Buildings in 2023

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.”

The latest year of data is from 2023, 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.)
16 N Morgan St ❌ 16 N Morgan St	Residential	-	-
Parkland Condominiums ❌ 6701 S Crandon Ave	Residential	-	-
5123 N Sheridan Rd ❌ 5123 N Sheridan Rd	Residential	-	-
5332 5340 W Windsor ❌ 5332 5340 W Windsor	Residential	-	-
Park Vista Apartments ❌ 4840 N Linder Ave	Residential	-	-
Irving Park YMCA ❌ 4251 4259 W Irving Park Rd	Residential	-	-
Commonwealth on the Park Apartments ❌ 331 W Oakdale Ave	Residential	-	-
Hales Franciscan ❌ 4930 S Cottage Grove Ave	K-12 School	-	-
Best Western Grant Park Hotel ❌ 1100 S Michigan Ave	Residential	-	-
4006 4016 N Austin Ave ❌ 4006 4016 N Austin Ave	Residential	-	-
800 900 W 115TH ST ❌ 800 900 W 115TH ST		-	-
2843 N LINCOLN AVE ❌ 2843 N LINCOLN AVE		-	-
East Side Lofts ❌ 1601 S Indiana Ave	Residential	-	-
2222 S Michigan Ave ❌ 2222 S Michigan Ave	Commercial	-	-
4320 4326 W Madison St ❌ 4320 4326 W Madison St	Residential	-	-

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data