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.) |
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Kingston Place
7429 7441 S KINGSTON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 324 tons
Lowest 11%
|
Infinite Chicago (nf04)
28 E Jackson Blvd
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 1,110 tons
Highest 41%
|
Baumhart Hall-ID#160412
(Loyola)
26 E Pearson St
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 1,270 tons
Highest 37%
|
1133 N. Dearborn Apartments
1133 N Dearborn St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 2,016 tons
Highest 22%
|
Wellington Condominium
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352 360 W WELLINGTON AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 751 tons
Lowest 44%
|
Wrightwood III LLC
451 W Wrightwood Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 607 tons
Lowest 35%
|
Alta at K Station
555 W Kinzie St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 4,803 tons
Highest 7%
|
Michigan Avenue Lofts
910 S Michigan Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 2,666 tons
Highest 16%
|
State Place Centre
1601 S STATE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 372 tons
Lowest 15%
|
2800 North Orchard Condominium Association
2800 N Orchard St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 503 tons
Lowest 27%
|
Windy City Fieldhouse
2367 W Logan Blvd
| Other - Recreation | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 303 tons
Lowest 9%
|
The Regal
651 S WELLS ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 517 tons
Lowest 28%
|
Trinity Community Housing Corporation
3939 S CALUMET AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 264 tons
Lowest 6%
|
LaSalle Private Residences
1212 N LaSalle St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 1,908 tons
Highest 24%
|
56th & Kimbark Condo Association
5543 5559 S KIMBARK AVE
| Multifamily Housing | 5.2 kg/sqft
Lowest 27%
| 321 tons
Lowest 11%
|
Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data