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Former state school employee Chlapecka paid in $201K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.78M in retirement

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Former state school employee Karen Chlapecka, who retired in June 2017, saved $201,446 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Chlapecka would collect as much as $3.78 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Chlapecka received $79,425 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Chlapecka will have already received $245,495 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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