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Former state school employee Lockwald paid in $181K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $3.5M in retirement

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Former state school employee Denise Lockwald, who retired in June 2017, saved $180,985 toward a pension over 24 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Lockwald would collect as much as $3.5 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Lockwald received $73,589 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Lockwald will have already received $227,457 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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