Illinois

Track Listing

• 1. Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
• 2. The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenien
• 3. Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World's Columbian Exposition/Pt. 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream
• 4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
• 5. Jacksonville
• 6. A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good Reasons
• 7. Decatur, Or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
• 8. One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman
• 9. Chicago
• 10. Casimir Pulaski Day
• 11. To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament
• 12. The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
• 13. Prairie Fire That Wanders About
• 14. A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
• 15. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
• 16. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
• 17. Let's Hear that String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way out in Bushnell
• 18. In this Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
• 19. The Seer's Tower
• 20. The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/Pt. 2: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now
• 21. Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few
• 22. Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run