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.

Concerning the Ufo Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish An Entire Civilization and
Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World's Columbian Exposition
John Wayne Gacy, JR
Jacksonville
Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good
Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman
Chicago
Casimir Pulaski Day
To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea
Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
Prairie Fire That Wanders About
Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens
Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from
Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It
In This Temple As in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
Seer's Tower
Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/Pt
Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines
Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the