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.) |
---|---|---|---|
3611 W. Montrose Condominium Association
3611 W Montrose Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 256 tons
Lowest 6%
|
Reside on Roscoe
532 W Roscoe
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 241 tons
Lowest 5%
|
StClement_School
642 W Deming Pl
| K-12 School | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 383 tons
Lowest 16%
|
StAlphonsus_School
1439 W Wellington Ave
| K-12 School | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 278 tons
Lowest 7%
|
Ozanam Village
251 N Albany Avenue
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 257 tons
Lowest 6%
|
Parkside Nine II
544 W Oak St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 719 tons
Lowest 42%
|
Parkside Nine I
545 W Division
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 704 tons
Lowest 41%
|
Stone Elementary Scholastic Academy
(CPS)
6239 N Leavitt St
| K-12 School | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 362 tons
Lowest 14%
|
William B Ogden Elementary School
(CPS)
24 W Walton St
| K-12 School | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 672 tons
Lowest 40%
|
320 Oakdale Condo
320 322 W OAKDALE AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 668 tons
Lowest 40%
|
330 N Clinton Condo Assoc
330 N Clinton St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 327 tons
Lowest 11%
|
1400 Museum Park Condo
100 E 14th St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 2,139 tons
Highest 21%
|
340 West Superior Condominium Association
340 W Superior St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 1,451 tons
Highest 32%
|
Park 1500 Loft
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1500 W Monroe St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 1,963 tons
Highest 23%
|
Thorndale Beach North Condominium Association
5901 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.1 kg/sqft
Lowest 25%
| 1,235 tons
Highest 38%
|
Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data