5 Facts About Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois and the Fifty States Project
- Illinois was the second album in Sufjan Stevens’ Fifty States Project, following 2003’s Michigan.
- Stevens later admitted the entire project was a promotional gimmick.
- Despite calling it a gimmick, he produced two genuinely great albums from the effort.
- The Fifty States Project was never completed beyond these two albums.
- Stevens’ honesty about the project’s origins is refreshing and rare in music.