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Former state school employee Dlouhy paid in $89K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.42M in retirement

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Former state school employee Colleen Dlouhy, who retired in July 2016, saved $88,933 toward a pension over 20 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dlouhy would collect as much as $1.42 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Dlouhy received $29,860 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dlouhy will have already received $92,295 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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