songs table
  Song Name Comments
1 Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois 56
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 Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Th 23
3 Come On! Feel the Illinoise! (Part 1: The World's Columbian Exposition; Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream) 51
4 John Wayne Gacy, Jr. 223
5 Jacksonville 35
6 A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons 5
7 Decatur, or Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! 60
8 One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman 3
9 Chicago 106
10 Casimir Pulaski Day 326
11 To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament 8
12 The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts 44
13 Prairie Fire That Wanders About 9
14 A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze 14
15 The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! 214
16 They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhhh! 46
17 In This Temple, as in the Hearts of Man, for Whom He Saved the Earth 5
18 Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bushnell 6
19 The Seer's Tower 73
20 The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders (Part 1: The Great Frontier; Part 2: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now) 34
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 4
22 Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run 15