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Former state school employee Morton paid in $160K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.61M in retirement

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Former state school employee Tracy Morton, who retired in June 2018, saved $159,804 toward a pension over 30 years working for public schools, Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Morton would collect as much as $2.61 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes North Cook News.

The projection assumes Morton received $54,856 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Morton will have already received $169,555 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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