The night before Election Day, a Cook County judge was mugged just blocks from Barack Obama’s home in the Kenwood neighborhood.

Judge Eileen Brewer, a highly rated Harvard Law grad like Obama, lives a few streets away from the president-elect. The robbery happened Monday night, hours before voters would elect Obama president and retain Brewer as a judge.

“He really beat me up,” Brewer said of her attacker.

She had just dropped off her son’s tutor and was on her front porch when he struck. The man weighed over 200 pounds, and she had a tough time fighting him off, she said. “No broken bones, just Advil injuries. He punched me in the stomach, on the arms, my back. He dragged me across the porch,” she said.