LAKE VILLA, Ill. (WGN) — Kathleen Miles is an Illinois mother to 11 kids and the grandmother to seven more.

She's the rock of her family, but now she's recovering after being punched by a man in Chicago's 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 told Nexstar's WGN on Tuesday.

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

The attacker watched as she lay on the ground bleeding before a good Samaritan, who turned out to be state senator Willie Preston, stepped in, took off his shirt and tried to stop the bl

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