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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Former state school employee Woods paid in $250K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.62M in retirement

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Former state school employee Mark Woods, who retired in June 2017, saved $249,935 toward a pension over 34 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Woods would collect as much as $4.62 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes West Cook News.

The projection assumes Woods received $97,013 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Woods will have already received $299,857 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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