Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
a whopping 69% of Chicago's emissions come from buildings, making it
our biggest challenge and our biggest opportunity as a city to tackle
change. At Electrify Chicago, we want to showcase some of the best and worst performing
buildings in the city using publicly available data and manual annotations to add
building photographs and label multi-building owners like universities.
You can start by looking at Chicago's buildings with the highest greenhouse gas intensity - this means that they use the most energy when adjusted per unit of square foot, so big buildings could actually perform much better than very inefficient small buildings on this metric.
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Chicago Buildings by Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Note: Data only includes large Chicago buildings from 2021, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Mansueto Library
1100 E 57th St
| Library | 22.5 kg/sqft 
Highest 3%
| 1,438 tons
Highest 33%
|
|
53100503--CHICAGO
333 E Benton PL
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 22.3 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 1,212 tons
Highest 38%
|
|
350 N. LaSalle
350 N LaSalle St
| Office | 22.2 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 2,691 tons
Highest 15%
|
|
John G Shedd Aquarium
📷
1200 S Lake Shore Dr
| Other | 22.1 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 10,017 tons
Highest 2%
|
|
03170- Chicago, IL
5320 S Pulaski Rd
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 22.1 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 1,588 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
Center on Halsted
3656 N Halsted St
| Mixed Use Property | 21.8 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 2,257 tons
Highest 19%
|
|
00092- Chicago, IL
1655 E 95th St
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 21.7 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 1,575 tons
Highest 30%
|
|
Omni Hotel
🚩
676 N Michigan Ave
| Hotel | 21.4 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 9,408 tons
Highest 3%
|
|
Ford City Mall
🚩
7601 S Cicero Ave
| Enclosed Mall | 21.3 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 18,461 tons #25 Highest
|
|
03176- Chicago, IL
9400 S Ashland Ave
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 21.2 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 1,407 tons
Highest 33%
|
|
Ascension SMEMC St Mary Campus.
🚩
2233 W Division St
| Hospital (General Medical & Surgical) | 21.2 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 14,768 tons #34 Highest
|
|
Swedish Hospital Campus
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5145 N California Ave
| Mixed Use Property | 21.1 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 16,871 tons #28 Highest
|
|
Humboldt Park Health
1044 N Francisco Ave
| Hospital (General Medical & Surgical) | 21.0 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 6,577 tons
Highest 5%
|
|
Shriners Hospital for Children-Chicago
2211 N Oak Park Ave
| Hospital (General Medical & Surgical) | 21.0 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 4,134 tons
Highest 9%
|
|
832 West Fulton LLC
832 854 W FULTON MARKET
| Mixed Use Property | 20.9 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
| 2,023 tons
Highest 22%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data