Nighttime sighting from a window by a young woman near Lake Lou Yaeger witnessed in Montgomery County, Illinois

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So I was sitting here in bed and I smelled this stench so powerful my eyes were watering. So I decided to get up, creep over to the window and I looked out there. My brother had been up here a couple of days before that and was cutting down a tree, well we got the blade stuck in the tree and we couldn't get the tree the rest of the way down. Well, I couldn't see it at first, I was standing there at the window, and I see the tree start to topple. And so, I couldn't see nothing outside so I thought "I want to take a picture anyways." When I flashed the camera I seen it out there. I think there was one near the woodline and there is one maybe ten feet from the house. The picture is kind of foggy because of the reflection of the glass in the window. You can tell what it is. I held it close enough to the glass. It was hunched over, it was all brown. It had to have been bigger than the other one I saw, it was even more massive. And this one's legs were brown. I got a good closeup v...