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.
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.
If you're in Chicago, write to your alderman to support the CABO!
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.) |
---|---|---|---|
The Renaissance
901 905 W ARGYLE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 401 tons
Lowest 18%
|
The Burnham at Woodlawn Park
6134 S. Cottage Grove Avenue
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 454 tons
Lowest 22%
|
Twelve01West
176 N Racine Avenue
| Office | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 1,045 tons
Highest 43%
|
Reside on Jackson
1241 1245 W JACKSON BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 716 tons
Lowest 42%
|
Sunnycourt Condominiums
906 934 W Sunnyside
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 471 tons
Lowest 24%
|
Forty East Delaware Place Condominium Association
40 E Delaware Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 843 tons
Lowest 49%
|
The Gwen Hotel
521 N Rush St
| Hotel | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 2,236 tons
Highest 20%
|
2007 N Sedgwick Condominium
2007 N Sedgwick
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 309 tons
Lowest 10%
|
Association House of Chicago
1116 N Kedzie Ave
| Office | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 951 tons
Highest 47%
|
Reside on Wellington
510-24 W Wellington
| Multifamily Housing | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 443 tons
Lowest 22%
|
Henry Crown Field House
5550 S University Ave
| Fitness Center/Health Club/Gym | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 907 tons
Highest 49%
|
Lyman A Budlong Elementary School
(CPS)
2701 W Foster Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 636 tons
Lowest 38%
|
Isabelle C O'Keeffe Elementary School
(CPS)
6940 S Merrill Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 589 tons
Lowest 34%
|
William P Nixon Elementary School
(CPS)
2121 N Keeler Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 806 tons
Lowest 47%
|
Daniel Boone Elementary School
(CPS)
6710 N Washtenaw Ave
| K-12 School | 6.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 45%
| 575 tons
Lowest 33%
|
Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data