Though Superman was created in Cleveland, Ohio (by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster), his fictional home city of Metropolis is said to be based on Chicago, the largest city in the Midwest. Sufjan Stevens paid tribute to both factual and fictional towns in “The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts”, the twelfth track on his much-acclaimed 2005 album Illinois, fittingly released on the Fourth of July and comprised entirely of songs inspired by the Prairie State.