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Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (2LP) rock And the more desperate I2LP Asthmatic Kitty (2005) US Asthmatic Kitty announces the second installment of Sufjan Stevens' 50 State Project, llinois, a 22 track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. Following the 2003 collection of songs for his home state, "Michigan," Stevens presents an emphatic answer to the question: Can a songwriter express the spirit of a state he's never called home? With his most enterprising project to date the result of extensive research,