Chicago dark sky? (Yeah, right)

[acmespaceship]

If you were expecting, say, a meteor shower and if you lived in the Chicago area and did not want to drive all to heck and gone, where would you go to find reasonably dark sky to the North?

And where's the nearest 24-hour diner, preferably with cherry pie and coffee?

I should have asked this two days ago.  But clear sky, who knew?

Comments

[whl.livejournal.com]

Well, growing up, the first place I remember seeing the milky way was about halfway to Richmond, IL, out Rand rd.

Are you sure you don't want to try northern Indiana?

Recently someone did an overlay for Google Earth on light pollution. Looking at that, thanks to Milwaukee, North is NOT good. (Well, NOTHING is good, but maybe out I-55 to south of Gardner.)

[whl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, between I-55 and I-57, there is a zone, but I think the closest is Il 49 south out of Kankakee, until you get to US 52