CHICAGO (WLS) -- A woman, 82, was sexually assaulted on Wednesday evening, Chicago police said. The crime happened at about 6:55 p.m. at a house near 82nd Street and Ashland Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood, police said. A man broke into the woman's house through a window and then hit her in the face, according to police.

The attacker entered through the window of a home Wednesday night and knocked the woman down, Chicago police said.