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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Former state school employee Chamberlin paid in $198K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.57M in retirement

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Former state school employee Theresa Chamberlin, who retired in June 2017, saved $198,252 toward a pension over 32 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Chamberlin would collect as much as $4.57 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Chamberlin received $95,958 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Chamberlin will have already received $296,597 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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