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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Former state school employee Eichstaedt paid in $142K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.47M in retirement

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Former state school employee Maria Eichstaedt, who retired in June 2016, saved $141,646 toward a pension over 17 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Eichstaedt would collect as much as $2.47 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Eichstaedt received $51,827 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Eichstaedt will have already received $160,192 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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