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.) |
---|---|---|---|
Kennelly Square Condominium Association
1749 N Wells St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 1,877 tons
Highest 25%
|
Malibu East Condominium
6033 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 5,618 tons
Highest 6%
|
Avenue East Condominiums
160 E Illinois St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 1,463 tons
Highest 32%
|
Hermitage on Huron Condominium (235635)
70 W Huron St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 1,487 tons
Highest 32%
|
Neapolitan
1212 N Wells St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 1,034 tons
Highest 44%
|
Cornell Village Tower Condominium Association
5201 S Cornell Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 1,649 tons
Highest 28%
|
Park Apartments
220 E GARFIELD BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 584 tons
Lowest 34%
|
The Lofts at Gin Alley
120 N Green St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 381 tons
Lowest 16%
|
Sheridan Pratt LLC
1200 W Pratt Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 496 tons
Lowest 27%
|
C5870LAK (22233)
5870 W LAKE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 286 tons
Lowest 8%
|
1313 Randolph - Greystar
1313 W RANDOLPH ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 509 tons
Lowest 27%
|
Park Gables Apartment Homes, INC
2438 2484 W ESTES AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 591 tons
Lowest 34%
|
Black Ensemble Theater
4450 N Clark St
| Performing Arts | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 307 tons
Lowest 10%
|
3940 W Bryn Mawr
3940 W BRYN MAWR AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 346 tons
Lowest 13%
|
CICS Northtown
3900 W Peterson Ave
| K-12 School | 5.7 kg/sqft
Lowest 35%
| 705 tons
Lowest 42%
|
Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data