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 includes large Chicago buildings with data from 2022, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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.
| Property Name / address | Primary Property Type |
Greenhouse Gas Intensity (kg CO2 eq./sqft) |
Total Greenhouse Emissions (metric tons CO2 eq.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Strand Apartments
6321 S Cottage Grove Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 2.4 kg/sqft 
Lowest 2%
| 214 tons
Lowest 3%
|
|
Irving Park Middle -CPS
(CPS)
3815 N Kedvale Ave
| K-12 School | 2.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 501 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
Atrio Apartments (md104)
🕰️
1926 1960 W HARRISON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 2.4 kg/sqft | 591 tons |
|
141 173 W OAK ST
141 173 W OAK ST
| Multifamily Housing | 2.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 395 tons
Lowest 16%
|
|
Erie Elementary Charter School
🏆
1405 N Washtenaw
| K-12 School | 2.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 1%
| 127 tons
#14 Lowest in Chicago*
|
|
2758 2768 N MILWAUKEE AVE
2758 2768 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 2.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 1%
| 181 tons
Lowest 2%
|
|
LZ Products
🕰️
2121 W 21st Street
| Wholesale Club/Supercenter | 2.3 kg/sqft | 163 tons |
|
Streeterville Center
233 E ERIE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 2.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 1%
| 542 tons
Lowest 30%
|
|
SEELEY BUILDING
🕰️
4424 4432 N SEELEY AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 2.3 kg/sqft | 134 tons |
|
Tech Central
🕰️
3424 S State Street
| College/University | 2.2 kg/sqft | 180 tons |
|
343 W. Erie St
343 W. Erie St
| Office | 2.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 1%
| 277 tons
Lowest 6%
|
|
The Belden Stratford
2300 N Lincoln Park West
| Multifamily Housing | 2.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 1%
| 598 tons
Lowest 33%
|
|
Tech South
🕰️
3450 S State Street
| College/University | 2.1 kg/sqft | 170 tons |
|
7350 S. Phillips, LLC
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7350 S. Phillips
| Multifamily Housing | 2.1 kg/sqft | 232 tons |
|
4537 S DREXEL BLVD
4537 S DREXEL BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 2.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 1%
| 293 tons
Lowest 8%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data