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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 โ€œAs of 2016, this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than 50,000 square feet.โ€ 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.)
McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC)
๐Ÿ“ท ๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
(Illinois Tech)
3201 S State Street
College/University
12.3 kg/sqft
1,151 tons
City Hall
(Chicago)
121 N LaSalle St
Office
12.3 kg/sqft
Highest 8%
5,045 tons
Highest 7%
Malcolm X College
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
(City Colleges)
1900 West Van Buren Street
College/University
12.3 kg/sqft
6,671 tons
Aviation Lofts
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
1340 S MICHIGAN AVE
Multifamily Housing
12.3 kg/sqft
614 tons
Wentworth Rehab and Healthcare Center
201 W 69TH ST
Senior Living Community
12.3 kg/sqft
Highest 8%
1,104 tons
Highest 42%
Womans Athletic Club Chicago
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
626 640 N Michigan
Social/Meeting Hall
12.3 kg/sqft
1,049 tons
Navy Pier, Inc.
๐Ÿšฉ ๐Ÿ“ท
600 E Grand Ave
Mixed Use Property
12.3 kg/sqft
Highest 8%
14,089 tons
#36 Highest
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
๐Ÿšฉ
836 W Wellington Ave
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
12.3 kg/sqft
Highest 8%
15,611 tons
#30 Highest
259 E Erie St
259 E Erie St
Medical Office
12.3 kg/sqft
Highest 8%
8,489 tons
Highest 3%
Northeastern Illinois University
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
5500 N. Saint Louis Avenue
College/University
12.3 kg/sqft
15,478 tons
Siegel Hall
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
(Illinois Tech)
3301 S State Street
College/University
12.2 kg/sqft
775 tons
Viceroy Chicago
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
1118 N State Street
Hotel
12.2 kg/sqft
1,638 tons
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%
The Womens Treatment Center
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ
140 N Ashland Ave
Residential Care Facility
12.2 kg/sqft
1,273 tons
Courtyard Marriot
30 E Hubbard St
Hotel
12.2 kg/sqft
Highest 8%
2,477 tons
Highest 18%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)