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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Former state school employee Groesch paid in $175K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.8M in retirement

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Former state school employee Wendy Groesch, who retired in June 2016, saved $175,370 toward a pension over 31 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Groesch would collect as much as $3.8 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Groesch received $79,960 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Groesch will have already received $247,149 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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