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 โAs of 2016, this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than 50,000 square feet.โ 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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Holland Apartments
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240 W 107th Pl
| Multifamily Housing | 2.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 154 tons
#27 Lowest in Chicago*
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StStan_School
1255 N Noble St
| K-12 School | 2.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 248 tons
Lowest 5%
|
Medinah Temple
600 - 820 N Wabash St
| Retail Store | 2.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 344 tons
Lowest 13%
|
SANS SOUCI CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION
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4825 4835 N CENTRAL AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 2.6 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 132 tons
#19 Lowest in Chicago*
|
Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
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3137 S FEDERAL ST
| College/University | 2.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 178 tons
Lowest 2%
|
The Darien
3100 N Lake Shore Dr
| Multifamily Housing | 2.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 891 tons
Highest 49%
|
FULLERTON PARKWAY TOWERS
415 W FULLERTON PKWY
| Multifamily Housing | 2.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 567 tons
Lowest 32%
|
Horizon House (159812)
5733 N Sheridan Rd
| Multifamily Housing | 2.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 682 tons
Lowest 40%
|
4801 W. Peterson Ave
4801 W Peterson Ave
| Office | 2.5 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 226 tons
Lowest 4%
|
641 W Lake
641 W Lake St
| Office | 2.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 255 tons
Lowest 6%
|
Atrio Apartments (md104)
1926 1960 W HARRISON ST
| Multifamily Housing | 2.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 591 tons
Lowest 34%
|
Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park
200 N COLUMBUS DR
| Hotel | 2.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 1,654 tons
Highest 28%
|
Drexel Parc Lofts
4537 S DREXEL BLVD
| Multifamily Housing | 2.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 336 tons
Lowest 12%
|
420 W. Ontario Residential Condominium Association
420 432 W ONTARIO ST
| Multifamily Housing | 2.4 kg/sqft
Lowest 2%
| 199 tons
Lowest 2%
|
2144 N. Lincoln Park Condominium Association
2144 N Lincoln Park West
| Multifamily Housing | 2.3 kg/sqft
Lowest 1%
| 667 tons
Lowest 40%
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data