What the night sky looks like over Hickory Hills, IL

Satellite radiance puts Hickory Hills 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. Hickory Hills's sky is brighter than 41.2% of the 3,206 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 Hickory Hills

Bartlett, IL, about 24 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Hickory Hills. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Hickory Hills against the rest of the dataset

Hickory Hills, IL has a population of about 14,118, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Hickory Hills ranks 1,313 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.