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Former state school employee Colwell paid in $225K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.55M in retirement

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Former state school employee Julie Colwell, who retired in June 2016, saved $224,696 toward a pension over 35 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Colwell would collect as much as $4.55 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Colwell received $95,603 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Colwell will have already received $295,499 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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