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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Former state school employee Gordon paid in $64K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.04M in retirement

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Former state school employee Belinda Gordon, who retired in March 2017, saved $64,056 toward a pension over 16 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Gordon would collect as much as $1.04 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Gordon received $21,903 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Gordon will have already received $67,700 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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