Daily album for February 15, 2026 Illinois by Sufjan Stevens (2005)

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Cover art for Illinois

Genres

  • baroque pop
  • chamber folk
  • chamber pop
  • folk rock
  • indie folk
  • indie rock
  • orchestral
  • progressive
  • rock
  • singer-songwriter

Illinois is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. It features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois is Stevens' second based on a U.S. state—part of a planned series of fifty that began with the 2003 album Michigan and that Stevens has since acknowledged was a joke. It was adapted into a musical, Illinoise, in 2023 and, after playing smaller venues, opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in April 2024.

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