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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Former state school employee Reynolds paid in $124K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.56M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mary Reynolds, who retired in June 2016, saved $124,172 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, Reynolds would collect as much as $2.56 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Reynolds received $53,800 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Reynolds will have already received $166,290 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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