Over 30 years of retirement, Gibbons would collect as much as $4.19 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.
The projection assumes Gibbons received $87,996 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.
After 3 years of retirement, Gibbons will have already received $271,987 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.