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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.)
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
🚩
301 E N Water St
Hotel
10.2 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
11,770 tons
#48 Highest
1117-1137 W Monroe
1117-1137 W Monroe
Multifamily Housing
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
605 tons
Lowest 34%
Adele and Robert Stern Red Shield Center
945 W 69th St
Mixed Use Property
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
507 tons
Lowest 27%
The Legacy at Millennium Park
🕰️
60 East Monroe St
Multifamily Housing
10.1 kg/sqft
8,337 tons
223 Jackson Brooks Building LLC
223 W Jackson Blvd
Office
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
1,697 tons
Highest 27%
Home Federal
11 E Adams St
Office
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
1,621 tons
Highest 29%
Montgomery on Superior Condominium Association
500 W Superior St
Multifamily Housing
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
4,062 tons
Highest 9%
Park Hyatt Chicago
800 N Michigan Ave
Multifamily Housing
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
6,806 tons
Highest 4%
300 North Elizabeth
300 N Elizabeth St
Office
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
1,289 tons
Highest 37%
Academy Square Apartments
🕰️
318 S THROOP ST
Multifamily Housing
10.1 kg/sqft
879 tons
3500 S GILES AVE
3500 S GILES AVE
Residential Care Facility
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
711 tons
Lowest 41%
Corboy Law Center-ID# 101971
🕰️
(Loyola)
25 E Pearson St
College/University
10.1 kg/sqft
3,111 tons
Garland Building
111 N Wabash Ave
Office
10.1 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
2,619 tons
Highest 17%
Auburn Commons
🕰️
1626 W 87th St
Multifamily Housing
10.0 kg/sqft
640 tons
600 S Michigan Ave
(Columbia)
600 S Michigan Ave
College/University
10.0 kg/sqft
Highest 13%
1,756 tons
Highest 26%
Page 36 of 226 (Building #526 to #540)

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