What the night sky looks like over Bourbonnais, IL

Satellite radiance puts Bourbonnais in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 39.3% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Bourbonnais

Hobart, IN, about 39 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Bourbonnais. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Hobart, IN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Bourbonnais against the rest of the dataset

About 18,083 people live in Bourbonnais, IL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Bourbonnais ranks 1,253 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.