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Illinois
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about this album
Illinois (or "Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise") is the second album in the so-called 50 States Project, which later turned out to be a stunt. The album focuses on Illinois and includes some things from Sufjan’s past as well. The artwork for the album originally included Superman but was eventually replaced (or, on some albums, flat-out removed). Contrary to popular belief, this is not because DC Comics filed a cease and desist. Rather, Asthmatic Kitty’s lawyers advised against this copyright infringement and a sticker of balloons was placed over it. They had also made other copies with the balloons printed on the cover or sometimes left that space blank. In the anniversary edition released 11 years later, the Marvel Comics character, Blue Marvel, took the place of Superman on the album cover. Divya Srinivasan did the original artwork and later did the artwork for the re-release as well. The album ‘booklet’ also featured all the lyrics and credits to the album, and the full cover, which included things like the UFOs, Abraham Lincoln, John Wayne Gacy, a Ferris Wheel and Sufjan himself with a banjo and a Bio-Gro hat. Sufjan had written all songs as well as producing, arranging, engineering and recording each track. James McAlister did the drum programming. 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 install
tracks
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Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
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The Black Hawk War, or, How to demolish an entire civilisation
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Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
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John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
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Jacksonville
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A Short Reprise for Mary Todd
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Decatur
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One Last "Whoo-hoo!" for the Pullman
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Chicago
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Casimir Pulaski Day
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To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament
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The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
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Prairie Fire That Wanders About
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A Conjunction of Drones
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The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
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They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!! Ahhhh!
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Let's Hear That String Part Again Because I Don't Think They Heard It All The Way Out In Bushnell
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In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
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The Seer's Tower
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The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders
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Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll
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Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt From My Sandals as I Run
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