LAKE VILLA, Ill. (WGN) — Kathleen Miles is a north suburban mother to 11 kids and the grandmother to seven more. She's the rock of her family, but now she's recovering after getting rocked by a man in the Loop, who has spent time in jail for doing just that to several other women years ago.

"This has rocked our whole family cause the rock needs someone to take care of her," Miles said from her Lake Villa home on Tuesday.

Miles has worked in the Loop for the last two decades, and a couple of weeks ago, she said she was walking to the train with a coworker along West Washington Avenue when a stranger blew through them and struck her in the face.

The attacker, WGN-TV was told, watched as she lay on the ground bleeding before a good Samaritan, who turned out to be state senator Willie Prest

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