Schaumburg, IL Night Sky Brightness
Schaumburg, IL's night sky, measured from orbit
Schaumburg's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 71.9% of the 3,206 US 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Schaumburg
Streamwood, IL, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Schaumburg. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Streamwood, 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 Schaumburg compares nationally
Schaumburg, IL counts roughly 77,099 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Schaumburg's position, 2,293 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.