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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 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(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.

Property Name / address Primary Property Type Greenhouse Gas Intensity
(kg CO2 eq./sqft)
Total Greenhouse Emissions
(metric tons CO2 eq.)
IBEW Local 134
🕰️
2722 S King Dr
Office
8.0 kg/sqft
543 tons
River East Center Campus
🚩
322 E Illinois St
Mixed Use Property
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
12,061 tons
#47 Highest
Lawndale Gardens
(CHA)
2530 S Washtenaw Ave
Multifamily Housing
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
794 tons
Lowest 46%
Gallery 37
🕰️
(Chicago)
66 E Randolph St
Other - Entertainment/Public Assembly
8.0 kg/sqft
599 tons
Admirals Pointe Condominium Association
🕰️
645 N Kingsbury St
Multifamily Housing
8.0 kg/sqft
1,691 tons
100 E Walton CA
100 E Walton St
Mixed Use Property
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
2,954 tons
Highest 14%
4700 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
(CHA)
4700 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE
Multifamily Housing
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
1,608 tons
Highest 29%
The Chicago Building
🕰️
(SAIC)
7 W Madison St
Residence Hall/Dormitory
8.0 kg/sqft
840 tons
The Buyer's Market Incorporated
🕰️
4545 W. Division St.
Enclosed Mall
8.0 kg/sqft
1,238 tons
Target, T2613 - Chicago Division
1200 N Larrabee St
Retail Store
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
1,517 tons
Highest 31%
210 N Wells St
210 N Wells St
Multifamily Housing
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
3,100 tons
Highest 13%
Fourth Prairie Shores, LLC
2851 S King Dr
Multifamily Housing
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
2,303 tons
Highest 19%
The Algonquin #6
1606 E Hyde Park Blvd
Multifamily Housing
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
475 tons
Lowest 24%
United Winthrop Tower Cooperative
4848 N Winthrop Ave
Multifamily Housing
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
2,009 tons
Highest 23%
Chicago Magnificent Mile Dbtree
300 E Ohio St
Hotel
8.0 kg/sqft
Highest 26%
3,370 tons
Highest 11%
Page 65 of 226 (Building #961 to #975)

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