Yorkville, IL: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Yorkville 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. Only 34.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Yorkville.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Yorkville

6 miles from Yorkville, straight-line, sits Plano, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Yorkville's own suburban edge band.

Plano, 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 Yorkville compares nationally

Yorkville, IL counts roughly 25,986 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Yorkville places 1,105 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.