Bradley, IL: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Bradley in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 96.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bradley.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Bradley

Bourbonnais, IL, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Bradley. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Bradley compares nationally

About 15,298 people live in Bradley, IL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Bradley places 3,064 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.