Buildings Owned By
City of Chicago

These are buildings that we have manually tagged as being owned by City of Chicago, so this may not be a definitive list.

Building Stats

  • 10 Tagged Buildings
  • Total Emissions: 21,567 metric tons CO2 equivalent

    Equivalent to 24 of the median benchmarked building (885.8 tons CO2e)

  • Average GHG Intensity: 10.1 kg CO2e/sqft

    2x the median benchmarked building (6.4 kg CO2/sqft)

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.)
Police Training Academy
(Chicago)
1300 W Jackson Blvd
Adult Education
15.6 kg/sqft
Highest 4%
2,808 tons
Highest 15%
City Hall
(Chicago)
121 N LaSalle St
Office
12.3 kg/sqft
Highest 8%
5,045 tons
Highest 7%
Martin Luther King Community Center
(Chicago)
4314 S Cottage Grove Ave
Other - Entertainment/Public Assembly
12.2 kg/sqft
Highest 8%
690 tons
Lowest 39%
Harold Washington Library
(Chicago)
400 S State St
Library
11.4 kg/sqft
Highest 9%
8,610 tons
Highest 3%
Englewood Health Center
(Chicago)
641 W 63rd St
Outpatient Rehabilitation/Physical Therapy
10.3 kg/sqft
Highest 12%
556 tons
Lowest 31%
400 W Superior St
(Chicago)
400 W Superior St
Office
9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
1,224 tons
Highest 38%
CDOT Central Office
🕰️
(Chicago)
1501 W Pershing Rd
Office
9.1 kg/sqft
907 tons
Gallery 37
🕰️
(Chicago)
66 E Randolph St
Other - Entertainment/Public Assembly
8.0 kg/sqft
599 tons
Sulzer Library
(Chicago)
4455 N Lincoln Ave
Library
6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
576 tons
Lowest 32%
Chicago Indoor Sports
🕰️
(Chicago)
3900 S Ashland Ave
Other - Recreation
6.1 kg/sqft
551 tons

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