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Top Regional Story of 2020 #8: Derecho hits Illinois

By Matthew Apgar, Michael Krabbenhoeft, Alex T. Paschal, Mark Busch and Sandy Bressner

December 28, 2020 at 12:42 pm CST

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Rock Falls firefighters and Sterling police work to get a van out from under a tree that fell on East 12trh Street in Sterling Monday August 10. (Michael Krabbenhoeft/mkrabbenhoeft@saukvalley.com)

Matthew Apgar

Matthew Apgar is a photojournalist, an explorer, a social connoisseur, and a cat dad. Pronouns: He/Him

Mark Busch

Mark has won dozens of awards as a photographer and has several years experience delivering quality, informative and engaging photojournalism to the readers. To purchase photo reprints visit https://photos.daily-chronicle.com/. Twitter @Mark_R_Busch.

Sandy Bressner

Photographer and Photo Editor with over 20 years of working in the newspaper industry.