Kankakee, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Kankakee reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Kankakee's sky is brighter than 26.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Kankakee

Hobart, IN, about 42 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Kankakee. 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.

How Kankakee compares nationally

About 23,535 people live in Kankakee, IL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Kankakee places 834 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.