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Former state school employee Hornish paid in $169K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.65M in retirement

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Former state school employee Ronald Hornish, who retired in June 2017, saved $168,610 toward a pension over 27 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Hornish would collect as much as $3.65 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Hornish received $76,647 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Hornish will have already received $236,907 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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