Cicero, IL: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Cicero in the inner-city band. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 98.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cicero.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Cicero

2 miles from Cicero, straight-line, sits Berwyn, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cicero's own inner-city band.

Berwyn, 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 Cicero compares nationally

Cicero, IL counts roughly 82,090 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Cicero places 3,145 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.