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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Former state school employee McGuckin paid in $237K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $6.07M in retirement

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Former state school employee Cynthia McGuckin, who retired in May 2016, saved $236,822 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, McGuckin would collect as much as $6.07 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes McGuckin received $127,556 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 2 years of retirement, McGuckin will have already received $258,939 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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