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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Former state school employee Florek paid in $219K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.61M in retirement

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Former state school employee Noreen Florek, who retired in July 2016, saved $218,644 toward a pension over 28 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Florek would collect as much as $3.61 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Florek received $75,850 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Florek will have already received $234,446 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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