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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state school employee Dornberger paid in $184K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.92M in retirement

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Former state school employee Doris Dornberger, who retired in June 2017, saved $184,004 toward a pension over 36 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dornberger would collect as much as $3.92 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Dornberger received $82,406 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dornberger will have already received $254,708 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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