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.
The City Of Chicago failed to collect $30 million in potential fines from the building benchmarking ordinance, reducing transparency and accountability.
As of late January 2024, legislation is being introduced to require new use more efficient forms of water and space heating, via the Clean And Affordable Buildings Ordinance (CABO), which will reduce the number of highly polluting and inefficient buildings that end up on this site.
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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.
This data is also from 2021, but when new benchmark data is available, we'll update the site.
Property Name / address | Primary Property Type |
Greenhouse Gas Intensity (kg CO2 eq./sqft) |
Total Greenhouse Emissions (metric tons CO2 eq.) |
---|---|---|---|
Franz Peter Schubert Elementary School
(CPS)
2727 N Long Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 544 tons
Lowest 31%
|
Josephine C Locke Elementary School
(CPS)
2845 N Newcastle Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 634 tons
Lowest 37%
|
Ernst Prussing Elementary School
(CPS)
4650 N Menard Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 516 tons
Lowest 28%
|
Matthew Gallistel Elementary Language Academy
(CPS)
10347 S Ewing Ave
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 515 tons
Lowest 28%
|
Minnie Mars Jamieson Elementary School
(CPS)
5650 N Mozart St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 607 tons
Lowest 35%
|
1164 West Madison
1164 W Madison
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 1,363 tons
Highest 34%
|
3150 N Sheridan
3150 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 1,223 tons
Highest 38%
|
325 West Huron Street
325 W Huron St
| Office | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 808 tons
Lowest 47%
|
William Jones College Preparatory High School
(CPS)
600 S State St
| K-12 School | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 2,055 tons
Highest 22%
|
850 Dewitt Place Condominiums
850 N Dewitt Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 1,415 tons
Highest 33%
|
1100 N. Lake Shore Condominium Association
1100 N LAKESHORE DR
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 1,239 tons
Highest 38%
|
Metropolitan Tower Condo Association
310 S Michigan Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 3,147 tons
Highest 13%
|
400 North LaSalle Condominium Association
400 N LaSalle St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 3,221 tons
Highest 12%
|
525 Hawthorne Place Condominium Association
525 W Hawthorne Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 1,484 tons
Highest 32%
|
Forty East Cedar Condominium
40 E CEDAR ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 30%
| 520 tons
Lowest 28%
|
Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data