A well-lit church steeple might be picturesque to some and a beacon to others, but at least one northwest suburban village president wouldn’t mind pulling the plug, saying the glare makes it hard to see the stars and detracts from the beauty of the nighttime sky.
“At 3 a.m., my sense is that God’s pretty powerful, and he knows where the church is,” said Robert Abboud, village president of Barrington Hills.
Read more: http://triblocal.com/barrington/2010/07/07/residents-turned-off-by-dark-sky-proposal/
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