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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Ogden Elementary - CPS
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(CPS)
24 W Walton St
| K-12 School | 2.0 kg/sqft 
#30 Lowest in Chicago*
| 639 tons
Lowest 36%
|
|
4235
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7050 S Pulaski
| Retail Store | 2.0 kg/sqft | 194 tons |
|
3222 W Maypole Ave
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3222 W Maypole Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 2.0 kg/sqft | 256 tons |
|
Michigan Avenue Gardens
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1808 S Michigan
| Multifamily Housing | 1.9 kg/sqft
#28 Lowest in Chicago*
| 102 tons
#9 Lowest in Chicago*
|
|
4260 N BROADWAY ST
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4260 N BROADWAY ST
| Multifamily Housing | 1.9 kg/sqft
#28 Lowest in Chicago*
| 236 tons
Lowest 4%
|
|
1000 W Washington Blvd
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1000 W Washington Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 1.8 kg/sqft
#26 Lowest in Chicago*
| 644 tons
Lowest 37%
|
|
220 E GARFIELD BLVD
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220 E GARFIELD BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 1.8 kg/sqft
#26 Lowest in Chicago*
| 187 tons
Lowest 2%
|
|
421 E 62ND ST
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421 E 62ND ST
| Multifamily Housing | 1.8 kg/sqft
#26 Lowest in Chicago*
| 555 tons
Lowest 31%
|
|
2929 W 83rd St
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2929 W 83rd St
| K-12 School | 1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
| 145 tons
#22 Lowest in Chicago*
|
|
1308 N Elston
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1308 N Elston
| Office | 1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
| 186 tons
Lowest 2%
|
|
2480 N MILWAUKEE AVE
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2480 N MILWAUKEE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
| 493 tons
Lowest 26%
|
|
Renaissance Saint Luke
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1501 W Belmont Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
| 144 tons
#21 Lowest in Chicago*
|
|
4611 S ELLIS AVE
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4611 S ELLIS AVE
| Worship Facility | 1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
| 84 tons
#6 Lowest in Chicago*
|
|
717 N Michigan Ave
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717 N Michigan Ave
| Retail Store | 1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
| 105 tons
#11 Lowest in Chicago*
|
|
830 N Michigan Ave
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830 N Michigan Ave
| Office | 1.7 kg/sqft
#20 Lowest in Chicago*
| 208 tons
Lowest 2%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data