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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Former state school employee Foerch paid in $235K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $4.97M in retirement

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Former state school employee Pamela Foerch, who retired in May 2017, saved $235,252 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Foerch would collect as much as $4.97 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Foerch received $104,467 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Foerch will have already received $322,897 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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