Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, "ILLINOIS", a 22-track anthemic tone poem to The Prairie State.
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11.1 Concerning the Ufo Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
21.2 Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish An Entire Civilization and
31.3 Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World's Columbian Exposition
41.4 John Wayne Gacy, JR
51.5 Jacksonville
61.6 Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good
71.7 Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
81.8 One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman
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1.9 Chicago
101.10 Casimir Pulaski Day
111.11 To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea
121.12 Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
131.13 Prairie Fire That Wanders About
141.14 Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens
151.15 Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
161.16 They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from
171.17 Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It
181.18 In This Temple As in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
191.19 Seer's Tower
201.20 Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/Pt
211.21 Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines
221.22 Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the
