Schiller Park, IL: how dark is the sky here?

Schiller Park's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Schiller Park's sky is brighter than 93.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

How far Schiller Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Norridge, IL, roughly 2 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

Norridge, 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 Schiller Park compares nationally

About 11,325 people live in Schiller Park, IL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Schiller Park places 2,969 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.