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.) |
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727 West Madison Street
727 W Madison St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 3,364 tons
Highest 11%
|
505 N. Green St.
505 N GREEN ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 271 tons
Lowest 7%
|
Sedgwick at Locust
367 W LOCUST ST
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 449 tons
Lowest 22%
|
545 Investors, LLC
545 McClurg Ct
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 3,607 tons
Highest 11%
|
Green Street Lofts
400 S Green St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 585 tons
Lowest 34%
|
Sheridan Shore Courts Condominium Association
7021 7035 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 389 tons
Lowest 17%
|
Olympia Lofts Condominium Association
831 43 W Adams St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 510 tons
Lowest 27%
|
Bank Note Place Condominium Association, Inc.
120 E Cullerton St
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 859 tons
Lowest 49%
|
Portage Park Elementary School
(CPS)
5330 W Berteau Ave
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 718 tons
Lowest 42%
|
Dr Jorge Prieto Math and Science
(CPS)
2231 N Central Ave
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 569 tons
Lowest 33%
|
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7801 S Throop St
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 357 tons
Lowest 14%
|
Marquette Elementary School
(CPS)
6550 S Richmond St
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 846 tons
Lowest 49%
|
Newton Bateman Elementary School
(CPS)
4200 N Richmond St
| K-12 School | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 751 tons
Lowest 44%
|
560 W Fulton Condo Assoc.
560 W Fulton
| Multifamily Housing | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 314 tons
Lowest 10%
|
325 North Wells
325 N Wells St
| College/University | 4.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 22%
| 761 tons
Lowest 45%
|
Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data