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Former state school employee Clishem paid in $226K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.2M in retirement

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Former state school employee Anthony Clishem, who retired in June 2018, saved $226,291 toward a pension over 29 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Clishem would collect as much as $4.2 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Clishem received $88,245 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Clishem will have already received $272,756 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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