Too lazy to comb through all the posts to see if anyone has already mentioned this, but the choir I sang in as a child did a song about "The State of Elanoy", spelled Elanoy as opposed to Illinois. Ah, just googled it and it's on Mudcat already -- here you go:
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiELANOYST;ttBUFFSKN2.html
Again, apologies if someone else has already mentioned this!