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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Former state school employee Heinrich paid in $81K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.17M in retirement

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Former state school employee Charles Heinrich, who retired in June 2018, saved $80,976 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, Heinrich would collect as much as $1.17 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Heinrich received $24,661 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Heinrich will have already received $103,173 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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