Read the lyrics of Come On! Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens, a layered indie folk song that blends personal insight with state history.

DEADLINE: I think with Illinoise, although it's fictional, there does feel a certain connection to and reflection of real life – Sufjan Stevens ... and the music] come to the brain separately ...

Not even Yes or Magma at their most hubristic could match the ambition of Stevens' conception ... in establishing the general tone is "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!", whose punning title hides ...

Tonight’s performance of Broadway’s Sufjan Stevens dance musical Illinoise has been canceled due to the death of a backstage company member. The death did not occur at the St. James Theatre ...