How dark is the sky in Forest Park, IL?

Forest Park reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 95.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Forest Park.

Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute.

Where to go for a darker sky near Forest Park

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

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

Forest Park against the rest of the dataset

Forest Park, IL counts roughly 13,846 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Forest Park ranks 3,056 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.