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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.)
Norwegian American Hospital
1044 N Francisco Ave
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
19.8 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
6,197 tons
Highest 5%
East Bank Club
500 N Kingsbury St
Fitness Center/Health Club/Gym
19.7 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
5,978 tons
Highest 5%
3443 W ADDISON ST
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3443 W ADDISON ST
Retail Store
19.6 kg/sqft
744 tons
Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute
2430 N Halsted St
Laboratory
19.5 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
2,441 tons
Highest 18%
RML Specialty Hospital
🕰️
3534 W Van Buren
Other - Specialty Hospital
19.4 kg/sqft
3,686 tons
833 857 W FULTON MARKET
833 857 W FULTON MARKET
Multifamily Housing
19.4 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
1,177 tons
Highest 40%
Flanner Hall-ID# 158842
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(Loyola)
1068 W Sheridan Rd
Mixed Use Property
19.4 kg/sqft
1,253 tons
Jewel Osco, 03441-Ashland & Wellington
2940 N Ashland Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
19.4 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
1,443 tons
Highest 33%
Jewel Osco, 03349-Narragansett & Diversey
2520 N Narragansett Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
19.2 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
1,237 tons
Highest 38%
Stuart Building
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(Illinois Tech)
10 W 31st Street
College/University
19.1 kg/sqft
1,601 tons
Jewel Osco, 03224-Irving Park & Narraganset
6430 W Irving Park Rd
Supermarket/Grocery Store
19.1 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
1,098 tons
Highest 42%
025110 - Stony Island Plaza
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1617-1754 E 95th St
Strip Mall
19.1 kg/sqft
3,620 tons
Riverside Square & River's Edge/ 90033
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3145 S Ashland Ave
Supermarket/Grocery Store
19.0 kg/sqft
1,418 tons
03262-Irving Park & Cicero
4660 W Irving Park Rd
Supermarket/Grocery Store
19.0 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
1,348 tons
Highest 35%
NMH Feinberg Pavilion and Galter Pavilion
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(Northwestern)
251 E Huron St
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
19.0 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
41,775 tons
#5 Highest
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)